The B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar" at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. On Aug. 9, 1945, the B-29 "Bockscar" dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki, which led to Japan’s ...

The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, features around 350 planes and missiles in its collection, but there's one aircraft in the World War II Gallery that attracts a particularly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, hastened the end of World War II. Japan formally ...

The Mk I bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy," was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It was delivered by the B-29 Enola Gay (on display at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum), it detonated at ...

The Enola Gay is remembered today as being the aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan nearly seventy-five years ago, and its infamous flight has been the subject of much debate. The ...

Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. Photographer Lyle Jansma started creating 360º views of cockpits in 2005, and has documented historic ...

DAYTON, Ohio -- It's hard to stand in front of the B-29 Superfortress and not be awed by its history. Deep inside the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ...

Dayton, Ohio — The Smithsonian Institution may decide today to save its beleaguered World War II atomic bomb exhibit by taking this cue from the U.S. Air Force Museum: keep it simple. Since 1961, the ...

It’s been 75-years since the world entered the “Atomic Age”, when the first nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.Days later, a second bomb targeted Nagasaki, Japan and shortly afterwards the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Bockscar is largely forgotten even though it carried the second atomic bomb—Fat Man—which was dropped on Nagasaki days after the first bomb was dropped on ...