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Date:      Mon, 04 Nov 2002 13:16:25 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current marcketting name?
Message-ID:  <3DC6E3A9.AC495ED1@mindspring.com>
References:  <3DC6DB51.C0C18AEF@mindspring.com> <XFMail.20021104154558.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20021104211115.GA40027@tara.freenix.org>

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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to John Baldwin:
> > B-29 or some such maybe.  The first B-52's were built in the 50's.
> > AFAIK the US didn't have jet-powered bombers during WWII.  I think
> > the first jet-powered fighters were used in the Korean War to
> > counter Mig's.  (Putting on my history-channel watching hat.)
> 
> Even B-29 were not that much used during WWII, most of the big US bombers
> were B-17 (Flying Fortress).

The Enola Gay was a B-29.

The original posting was a joke, anyway.  Ugh.

-- Terry

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