Strange Cargo was the name of a B-29 Superfortress (B-29-36-MO 44-27300, Victor number 73) modified to carry the atomic bomb in World War II.
Delivered on April 2, 1945, to the USAAF, it was assigned to Crew A-4 (1st Lt. Joseph E. Westover), aircraft commander) and flown to Wendover Army Air Field, Utah.
From March to August 1946 it was assigned to the Operation Crossroads task force, then rejoined the 509th BG at Roswell.
Subsequent assignments as a WB-29 were to: Strange Cargo was modified again in August 1954, this time as a TB-29 trainer at Tinker AFB and at the Mobile Air Materiel Area, Nashville, Tennessee.
An FB-111A strategic bomber of the USAF, serial 69-6508, carried the name and nose art of Strange Cargo on its nosewheel doors during its service with the 509th Bomb Wing at Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire, in the 1970s and 1980s.