B-29TB “Superfortress”

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced bomber aircraft to see operation service in World War II. The Army Air Force used it in low-level, night-incendiary attacks against Japan and to successfully aerial-mine the waters surrounding the Japanese mainland. The Enola Gay, arguably the most famous B-29, dropped the world’s first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, another B-29 named Bockscar dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.  

When SAC was established in 1946, it exclusively used B-29s. They were used in the conventional bombing role during the Korean War (1950-1953). B-29s flew their final bomber mission in 1954, thereafter serving SAC in specialized roles such as reconnaissance and tanker aircraft.  

The Museum’s B-29 was manufactured by Bell Aircraft, in Marietta, Georgia and delivered to the USAAF on August 4, 1945.