The Miss Jupiter is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Sally Jupiter.
History
On August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II, Paul Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis piloted the Miss Jupiter to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.[1][2]
Trivia
- The Miss Jupiter is featured only in the introduction of the 2009 live-action adaptation of Watchmen and replaces the historical Enola Gay.