The B-29 Goes Atomic: A Look at Operation Silverplate

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a year and nine months earlier, on Dec. 2, 1943, a lone Boeing B-29 Superfortress bearing serial number 42-6259 had secretly taken […]