B-29
noun
Elementary
1
Ellipsis of Boeing B-29 Superfortress, an American bomber plane primarily used in World War II.
“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.”
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