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B-29
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en aircraft military en w:Boeing B-29 Superfortress an American bomber plane primarily used in World War II.
en Brad Lendon;Emiko Jozuka History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/asia/japan-tokyo-fire-raids-operation-meetinghouse-intl-hnk/index.html 2020-03-07 As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night. The B-29s would go in low – at 5,000 to 8,000 feet. https://web.archive.org/web/20250320215803/https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/asia/japan-tokyo-fire-raids-operation-meetinghouse-intl-hnk/index.html