Silverplate was the code reference for the United States Army Air Forces' participation in the Manhattan Project during World War II. Originally the name...
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reduced defensive firepower as the nuclear weapons-delivery intended Silverplate B-29 airframes and could carry greater fuel and bomb loads as a result...
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The Taunton Silverplate Company, also known as the Taunton Silver Plate Company, was an American manufacturing company active in Taunton, Massachusetts...
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Company was one of the largest American manufacturers of sterling and silverplate and a foundry for bronze sculpture. Gorham Silver was founded in 1831...
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the officers in Silverplate when they were adopting their own codenames for their own project (including "Silverplate"). As Silverplate involved modifying...
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the second – and most recent – nuclear attack in history. One of 15 Silverplate B-29s used by the 509th, Bockscar was built at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft...
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William F. Hanna, A History of Taunton, Massachusetts, 2007 American Silverplate Marks Winokoor, Charles (July 9, 2009). "F.B. Rogers demolition finally...
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Plating (redirect from Silverplating)
Plating is a finishing process in which a metal is deposited on a surface. Plating has been done for hundreds of years; it is also critical for modern...
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United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). A cover story was devised that Silverplate was about modifying a Pullman car for use by President Franklin Roosevelt...
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as a "composite", rather than a "bombardment" formation. It operated Silverplate B-29s, which were specially configured to enable them to carry nuclear...
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(B-29-36-MO 44-27304, Victor number 88) configured during World War II in the Silverplate project to carry an atomic bomb. Assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron,...
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The Great Artiste was a U.S. Army Air Forces Silverplate B-29 bomber (B-29-40-MO 44-27353, Victor number 89), assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th...
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States Army Air Forces was trained and equipped with the specialized Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and deployed to Tinian in the...
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required. The Army Air Forces Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, began Silverplate, the codename for the modification of the B-29, in November 1943. Test...
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involvement in the Manhattan Project, codenamed Silverplate. A cover story was devised that Silverplate was about modifying a Pullman car for use by President...
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Force Base. The bomber was one of the first fifteen B-29s built to the "Silverplate" specification— of 65 eventually completed during and after World War...
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Oneida Silver Company was founded here to manufacture sterling silver, silverplate holloware and, later, stainless steel flatware. According to the U.S...
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Operation Bolero Operation Matterhorn Operation Tidal Wave Project Alberta Silverplate Strategic bombing during World War II United States Strategic Bombing...
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operating between 1824 and 2015. Its products include sterling silver and silverplate flatware. The company produced many varieties of britannia and silver...
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400 shp (2,540 kW) R-3350-35A 2,200 shp (1,640 kW) R-3350-41 Fuel injected Silverplate variant R-3350-42WA 3,800 shp (2,830 kW) R-3350-53 2,700 shp (2,010 kW)...
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of the world's largest designers and sellers of stainless steel and silverplated cutlery and tableware for the consumer and foodservice industries. It...
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Captain Cragie 1992 Mathnet as John "Long John" Silverplate 1992 Square One TV as John "Long John" Silverplate / Lou 1994 Matlock as Vic 1995 Microsoft Windows...
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393d Bomb Squadron of the 509th Composite Group. It was one of fifteen Silverplate B-29s used by the 509th. Top Secret was built at the Glenn L. Martin...
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In March 1948, only 35 "Silverplate" atomic-capable Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers—just over half of the 65 Silverplate specification B-29 aircraft...
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Rings'. "When a dilute solution of copper acetate is placed on a bright silverplate and a strip of zinc is touched to the silver beneath the copper, a series...
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Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-85628-X. Campbell, Richard H. (2005). The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured...
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butler, is a small container, often of base metal, sometimes silver or silverplate, with a handle and hinged cover, used for collecting ashes or crumbs...
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other nonessential equipment were stripped out (not unlike the earlier Silverplate program for the atomic bomb-carrying "specialist" B-29s), resulting in...
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of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2338-9. Campbell, Richard H. (2005). The Silverplate Bombers: a History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured...
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(1952) as Maj. William 'Bill' M. Uanna – Security Officer, Operation Silverplate The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) as Charles 'Chico' Menlow Kiss Me...
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