B-29 Memorial

The B-29 Memorial Plaza in Great Bend, Kansas, is a memorial to the men and women who made the B-29 project a success. This memorial to the B-29 airfields - Smoky Hill, Pratt, Walker, and Great Bend -- also represents a look toward the future, reminding future generations of the sacrifices that were made to keep the United States secure.

The B-29 at Boeing

Boeing Wichita - one of the original manufacturers of the B-29 Superfortress - is providing hangar space for and facilitating the organization of the volunteer effort to restore the B-29 "Doc" to flying status.

B-29 Official Website

This is the official home of B-29.org, a site dedicated to the legacy of the amazing B-29 Superfortress and the men and women who flew, crewed, built and maintained these amazing planes.

HeavyBombers.com -- your source for USAAF information

This is a research resource that lists over 100 separate Heavy and Very Heavy Bombardment Groups and their points of contact. The scope of this site is limited to units that served in the United States Army Air Forces of World War II.

NOVA: B-29 Frozen in Time
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World War II related information

The American Experience: Fly Girls

During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutantes who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. Thirty-eight women died in service. But the opportunity to play a critical role in the war effort was abruptly canceled by politics and resentment, and it would be 30 years before women would again break the sex barrier in the skies.

The American Experience: D-Day

D-Day is told through the voices of people who participated in the planning and execution of the invasion, and in the battle for the Normandy beaches. Edited from over 100 hours of interviews, their stories are woven together with footage and photographs from American, British, and German archives, much of which had never before been seen on television.

NOVA: Nazi Prison Escape
The program documents a series of spectacular escape attempts made at Colditz Castle, the Nazi's most impregnable prison.

NOVA: Hitler's Lost Sub

The film follows a six-year odyssey by a group of divers to identify a mysterious U-boat they discovered in 1991 off the coast of New Jersey.

NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets
This two-hour NOVA special chronicles how the Allies succeeded in cracking the infamous German message-coding machine, the Enigma.

NOVA: Holocaust on Trial

The film uses a celebrated recent trial as a springboard to examine and successfully challenge the notion of Holocaust denial.

NOVA: Submarines, Secrets, and Spies
Along with celebrated oceanographer and explorer Robert Ballard, NOVA goes in search of clues to two tragedies of the Cold War, the wrecks of the nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion.

The American Experience: Race for the SuperBomb

At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan.