FIRST -- Bomber to House Crew in Pressurized Compartments - Chantilly, VA
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bluesnote
N 38° 54.627 W 077° 26.630
18S E 288104 N 4309678
This is the aircraft the bombed Japan in WWII.
Waymark Code: WMJPJ7
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2013
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This pane was the most destructive aircraft in all the wars combined. It killed MILLIONS in one shot! The plane is now on permanent display here in the Smithsonian. The plaque says, "Boing's B-29 Super fortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II, and the first bomber to house it's crew in pressurized compartments. Although designed to fight in the European theater, the B-29 found its inch on the other side of the globe. In the Pacific, B-29's delivered a variety of aerial weapons: conventional bombs, incendiary bombed, mines, and two nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945 the Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three says later, Bockscar (On display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day. A third B-29, the Great Artiste, flew as an observation aircraft on both missions."
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