The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is so large that it couldn't fit into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's ...

In the World War II History Roundtable’s next presentation at Greenville’s Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, author and U.S. Naval War College professor Jonathan Parshall will be discussing factors ...

NEILLSVILLE − The Highground Museum, located at W7031 Ridge Road in Neillsville, is showcasing stories and artifacts from World War II U.S. Army Air Forces bomb crews. The exhibit, which runs through ...

Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...

A "Little Boy" and a "Fat Man" changed countless lives 68 years ago. Jim "Ace" Capossela's was one of them. Stationed with the U.S. Navy on Guam, Capossela was training with other troops to invade ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

A ceremonial flame from Hiroshima, the flame of peace, will be brought to Pearl Harbor National Memorial over Memorial Day ...

Most of the older performance aircraft still in use by the military - including the F-15, F-16, U-2 spy plane, B-52 and B-1 bomber, are off-limits to the general public. A ride in one usually is ...

The Nagasaki Peace Bell in Honolulu sits near the intersection of South Beretani and Lauhala streets, at the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center grounds. In addition to Honolulu, other replicas of the Nagasaki ...

A teenage girl who tragically lost her life in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been identified nearly 80 years later through DNA analysis. The 13-year-old victim, named Hatsue Kajiyama, died on ...