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- Silverplate abstract "Silverplate was the code reference for the United States Army Air Forces' participation in the Manhattan Project during World War II. Originally the name for the aircraft modification project for the B-29 Superfortress bomber to enable it to drop an atomic weapon, Silverplate eventually came to identify the training and operational aspects of the program as well. The original directive for the project had as its subject line "Silver Plated Project" but continued usage of the term shortened it to "Silverplate".Testing began with scale models at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia, in August 1943. Modifications began on a prototype Silverplate B-29 known as the "Pullman" in November 1943, and it was used for bomb flight testing at Muroc Army Air Field in California commencing in March 1944. The testing resulted in further modifications to both the bombs and the aircraft.Seventeen production Silverplate aircraft were ordered in August 1944 to allow the 509th Composite Group to train with the type of aircraft they would have to fly in combat, and for the 216th Army Air Forces Base Unit to test bomb configurations. These were followed by 28 more aircraft that were ordered in February 1945 for operational use by the 509th Composite Group. This batch included the aircraft which carried out the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Including the Pullman B-29, a total of 46 Silverplate B-29s were produced during and after World War II. An additional 19 Silverplate B-29s were ordered in July 1945, which were delivered between the end of the war and the end of 1947. Thus, a total of 65 Silverplate B-29s were made.The use of the Silverplate codename was discontinued after the war, but modifications continued under a new codename, Saddletree. Another 80 aircraft were modified under this program. A last group of B-29s were modified in 1953, but never saw further service.".
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- Silverplate wikiPageExternalLink AFD-080128-037.pdf.
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- Silverplate wikiPageRevisionID "683051401".
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 216th_Army_Air_Forces_Base_Unit.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 393d_Bomb_Squadron.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 393d_Bombardment_Squadron.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 468th_Bombardment_Group.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 509th_Bomb_Wing.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 509th_Bombardment_Wing.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 509th_Composite_Group.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 97th_Air_Mobility_Wing.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 97th_Bombardment_Wing.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink 9th_Reconnaissance_Wing.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Aerial_refueling.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Air_Force_Materiel_Command.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Air_refueling.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Anti-aircraft_warfare.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Arctic.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Armor_plate.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Atomic_bombing_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Avro_Lancaster.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink B-29_Superfortress.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink B-36.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink B-47.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink B-50_Superfortress.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Ballistics.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Biggs_Air_Force_Base.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Biggs_Army_Airfield.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Bockscar.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_B-29_Superfortress.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_B-47_Stratojet.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_B-50_Superfortress.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Boeing_C-97_Stratofreighter.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Bomber.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Bombing_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink C-97_Stratofreighter.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Calibration.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Captain_(United_States_O-6).
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Category:Boeing_B-29_Superfortress.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Category:Manhattan_Project.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_aviation.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Category:Nuclear_warfare.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Colonel_(United_States).
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Convair_B-36_Peacemaker.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Dahlgren,_Virginia.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Edwards_Air_Force_Base.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink El_Paso,_Texas.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Enola_Gay.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Fat_Man.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Flak.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Franklin_D._Roosevelt.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Franklin_Roosevelt.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Fuel_injection.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink General_(United_States).
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Glenn_L._Martin_Company.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Hanford_Site.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Henry_H._Arnold.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Kansas.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Leslie_Groves.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Leslie_R._Groves,_Jr..
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Little_Boy.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Los_Alamos_Laboratory.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Major_General_(United_States).
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Major_general_(United_States).
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Manhattan_Project.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Mark_4_nuclear_bomb.
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- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Mark_6_nuclear_bomb.
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- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Muzzle_velocity.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Naval_Surface_Warfare_Center_Dahlgren_Division.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Norman_Foster_Ramsey,_Jr..
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_weapon.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Ohio.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Oliver_P._Echols.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Omaha,_Nebraska.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Plutonium-239.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Plutonium-240.
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- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Plutonium_240.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink President_of_the_United_States.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Project_Alberta.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Propeller.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Pullman_(car_or_coach).
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Pullman_car.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Pumpkin_bomb.
- Silverplate wikiPageWikiLink Reverse_thrust.