Word: b29
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spurred creation of the first B-17 Flying Fortress in 1935. By the war's end 12,731 Flying Fortresses had been built for the Allies and had dropped more than 640,000 tons of bombs on Europe alone. Its sister ship, the larger, more powerful B29, which entered the war in 1944, delivered 96% of all the bombs dropped on Japan...