<p>The B-29 was developed as a strategic long-range bomber for the US war effort in World War II. It was primarily used in the Pacific theater to bomb Japanese targets.
</p><p>This aircraft is <i>Enola Gay</i>, the very aircraft that delivered an atomic bomb over the skies of Hiroshima, for the first nuclear attack in world history.
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In 1996, only the nose of the aircraft was on display at the National Air &amp; Space Museum, as seen here in an unretouched scan of a 35mm positive. The rest of the aircraft was stored at Dulles Airport in a restoration hangar. In 2003, that hangar would evolve into Udvar-Hazy Center, the annex of the National Air &amp; Space Museum, and <i>Enola Gay</i>, whole again, would be one of its star attractions.
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