. >> those particular airplanes were manufactured at the martin brusca bomber plant where colonel tibbettschose his bomber that would be named after his mother, the enola gay. the first b-29 to drop an atomic bomb. to tell you a little bit about our b-29, it was produced in wichita, kansas and did not get to see action in world war ii but was delivered to the army air force and use primarily for training navigators, radar systems, and also used to pilot drones for targeting. when it was dropped in 1959 from the air force inventory, it was transferred the sac museum. the role that omaha place from going from world war ii to the cold war, which many historians tell you overlap each other -- the soviet union realizing that the united states has something greater than they are revealing and being caught up in that. how they fall into this history is going from the martin bomber plant, testing of aircraft, to then becoming a national air force base in 1947. with that, strategic air command , which was stood up in 1946 was looking for a new home. they were placed in control of the strategic bomb