The Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber is one of the most legendary warbirds of all time and rightfully so, as it brought WWII to a literally Earth-shattering halt thanks to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus convincing Imperial Japan’s then-Emperor Hirohito to eschew the samurai code of Bushid (, “the way of the warrior”) and finally surrender to the Allies.