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Boeing
B-29-45-MO
Superfortress

On 6 August 1945, this Martin-built B-29 dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (see our U.S. Air Force Museum photos) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. The Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day.

Boeing B-29-45-MO Superfortress