Aircraft used during the raid on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945
This article is about the airplane. For other uses, see Great Artist (disambiguation).
The Great Artiste
A B-29 painted to look like The Great Artiste (the original plane was scrapped) at the Whiteman Air Force Base
Type
Boeing B-29-40-MO Superfortress
Manufacturer
Glenn L. Martin Company, Omaha, Nebraska
Serial
44-27353
In service
1945-1948
Fate
Crashed on take-off at Goose Bay Air Base, Labrador and scrapped
The Great Artiste was a U.S. Army Air Forces Silverplate B-29 bomber (B-29-40-MO 44-27353, Victor number 89), assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group. The aircraft was named for its bombardier, Captain Kermit Beahan, in reference to his bombing talents. It flew 12 training and practice missions in which it bombed Japanese-held Pacific islands and dropped pumpkin bombs on targets in Japan. It was the only aircraft to have participated in both the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, albeit as an observation aircraft on each mission.
After the war ended it returned with the 509th Composite Group to Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico. It was scrapped in September 1949 after being heavily damaged in an accident at Goose Bay Air Base, Labrador, the year before.
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assemblies in the eight days leading up to the second mission, including a final rehearsal the day before. TheGreatArtiste, which was the assigned aircraft...
North Field, in the Northern Mariana Islands, about six hours' flight time from Japan, accompanied by two other B-29s, TheGreatArtiste, carrying instrumentation...
that bombed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Flying as part of the crew of TheGreatArtiste which was a reference to him, purportedly because he could "hit...
for the missions. On 6 August 1945, Sweeney and Albury piloted TheGreatArtiste as the instrumentation and observation support aircraft for the atomic...
calculated the yield as 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ). Based on the Project Ichiban data, and the pressure-wave data from TheGreatArtiste, the yield was...
observed the Trinity nuclear test from a B-29 Superfortress, and later the bombing of Hiroshima from the B-29 TheGreatArtiste. After the war Alvarez...
illustrate the level of security affecting the 509th's personnel and equipment. En route to Tinian on 4 June 1945, the B-29 that became TheGreatArtiste made...
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some airplay, the band failed to garner any commercial success. Their second album, TheGreatArtiste, also sold poorly. Nevertheless the band developed...
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and Great Britain issue a formal declaration of war against Japan the next day. December 11: The same day after Germany and Italy declare war on the United...
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flew as a scientific observer in TheGreatArtiste, piloted by Charles Sweeney, which tailed the Enola Gay as the instrumentation aircraft. Agnew later...
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for the previous two decades – thegreat value of strategic forces in bombing an enemy's industrial complex and of tactical forces in controlling the skies...
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