Crossword-Solution: SUPERFORTRESSES
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| One cause of the unification investigation. | 1 answer |
| B-29s. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SUPERFORTRESSES (3)
The power of the bomb was estimated to be equal to 20,000 tons of TNT, or equivalent to the bomb load of 2,000 B-29, Superfortresses! After witnessing the awesome blast, Oppenheimer quoted a line from a sacred Hindu text, the Bhagavad-Gita: He said: "I am become death, the shatterer of worlds."[6] In Los Alamos 230 miles to the north, a group of scientists' wives who had stayed up all night for the not so secret test, saw the light and heard the distant sound.
When only two B-29 superfortresses were sighted at 10:53 the Japanese apparently assumed that the planes were only on reconnaissance and no further alarm was given.
One of the greatest surprises of the war was the War Department’s announcement on June 15, 1944: “B-29 _Superfortresses_ of the United States Army Air Forces’ 20th Bomber Command bombed Japan.” Just one year after the announcement of the first _Superfortress_ attack on Japan, five hundred of these giant ships took part in a single raid against targets on the Japanese mainland.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1950).