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This collection consists of one brown-toned photograph of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay taken in 1945 by Albert Giordano on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands.
Boeing's B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II, and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. Although designed to fight in the European theater, the B-29 found its niche on the other side of the globe. In the Pacific, B-29s delivered a variety of aerial weapons: conventional bombs, incendiary bombs, mines, and two nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Albert Giordano served aboard the USS Arkab (AK-130) during World War II. Giordano took a photograph of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay in 1945 on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands.
NASM.2019.0001
Giordano, Albert
1945
Dr. Albert Giordano, Gift, 2018, NASM.2019.0001
0.01 Cubic feet (1 folder)
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one brown-toned photograph of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay taken in 1945 by Albert Giordano on Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. The photograph measures 3 by 4 inches.
Collection is in original order.
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay Photograph [Giordano], NASM.2019.0001, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics
Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Silverplate "Enola Gay"
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