Close-up of Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Doc".
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American bomber used in World War II to fight Japan from bases in China and the Mariana Islands (on Guam and two islands of the Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan and Tinian). The B-29 bomber was used to drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The name of this bomber was "Enola Gay". Three days later, the second atomic bomb was dropped, this time over Nagasaki by the bomber named "Bockscar".
The photo was taken on Oct. 26, 2019 during the air show at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…
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