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Home / Society / Military / Aviation / Aircraft / Bombers / B-29 Superfortress
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- B-29 Restoration - Photos, news, and aircraft history.
b-29.boeing.com
- B-29 Superfortress - Historical materials on the aircraft, it's missions and crews. Includes section on the 509th Composite Group which has nose art pictures and crew details of 15 aircraft assigned to the Group which was to deliver the atomic bombs to Japan.
home.att.net/~sallyann2
- Birds From Hell: History of the B-29 - Summary of this book, from the publisher.
www.hellgatepress.com/books/5508.html
- Boeing - History of the Superfortress aircraft.
www.boeing.com/companyoffices/history/boeing/b29.html
- Dave Norton - Creative writing titled "Requiem for an Aircraft, Farewell to a Pilot", about flying in a Superfortress.
www.summitlake.com/WRITING/B-29.html
- Desert USA - Article titled "B-29 Superfortress Saved From a Desert Death". An army of museum volunteers rescues a World War II B-29 Superfortress from the desert for restoration.
www.desertusa.com/mag98/nov/stories/b29.html
- Federation of American Scientists - Brief history, specifications, and photos.
www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-29.htm
- General Paul Tibbets - The official site of General Paul Tibbets, pilot of the B-29 "Enola Gay" that dropped the Hiroshima bomb.
www.theenolagay.com
- Heavy Bombers - Photos of static displays, noses, tails, gun turrets, side blisters, interiors, and tail markings.
www.heavybombers.com/aircraft.html
- Joe Baugher's Encyclopedia of American Military Aircraft - Index of chapters for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/b029i.html
- March Air Field Museum - Photos, specifications, and history.
www.pe.net/~marfldmu/b29a.htm
- National Air and Space Museum - Photos and history of the Superfortress and the "Enola Gay."
www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/aero/aircraft/boeing_b29.htm
- P. Lewis - Photos and extended history of the B-29.
history.sandiego.edu:16080/gen/st/~plewis
- The Last Flight of the B-29 Kee Bird - On February 21, 1947 a U.S. Army Air Corps arctic-modified B-29 (known as an F-13) named the "Kee Bird" became lost, ran out of fuel and was forced to crash land. The story is told by the crew members.
www.b29keebird.net
- Warbird Alley - Photo, history, and statistics.
www.warbirdalley.com/b29.htm
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