the Hanford Site, and one was dropped from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar piloted by Major Charles Sweeney. The name Fat Man refers to the early... 47 KB (5,731 words) - 13:30, 1 April 2024 |
pump, Bockscar and The Great Artiste headed for their secondary target, Nagasaki. Fuel consumption calculations made en route indicated that Bockscar had... 217 KB (25,006 words) - 00:53, 6 May 2024 |
workers, and 400 Allied POWs. That day, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar, commanded by Major Charles Sweeney, departed from Tinian's North Field... 48 KB (4,391 words) - 21:31, 29 April 2024 |
Japan. August 9 – WWII: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki: United States B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man", on the Japanese... 147 KB (16,213 words) - 20:42, 6 May 2024 |
from the attack by December 1945. On the morning of 9 August 1945, the Bockscar, a second B-29 piloted by the 393d Bombardment Squadron's commander, Major... 176 KB (21,493 words) - 03:35, 5 May 2024 |
takeoff (all times Tinian; Nagasaki times were one hour earlier) when Bockscar reached 5,000 feet (1,500 m) of altitude. When the daylight rendezvous... 59 KB (6,310 words) - 14:10, 9 February 2024 |
Among the exhibits at the US Air Force's... museum in Dayton, Ohio, is Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki bomb. It is proudly identified as 'the... 12 KB (1,131 words) - 20:04, 23 December 2023 |
Group, it was used as a camera plane in support of the bomb-carrying B-29 Bockscar to photograph the explosion and effects of the bomb, and also to carry... 10 KB (1,139 words) - 17:26, 3 May 2024 |
The Bockscar B-29 that was used to deliver the Fat Man bomb to Nagasaki and a post war Mk III nuclear weapon painted to resemble the Fat Man... 166 KB (20,010 words) - 10:25, 11 May 2024 |
Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, and others. Both US bombers the Enola Gay and the Bockscar (which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively) flew... 38 KB (4,131 words) - 23:50, 17 April 2024 |
Detective Sgt. Will Hendricks Mac Brandt as Bruiser Brandon Molale as Jimmy "Bockscar" Knox Michael Papajohn as Mike "The Flea" Jeff Wolfe as Giovanni Vacarezza... 24 KB (2,686 words) - 06:17, 24 April 2024 |
General Army and Fifth Division). On 9 August, three days later, the B-29 Bockscar flew over the Japanese city of Nagasaki in northwest Kyushu and dropped... 190 KB (22,411 words) - 07:20, 9 May 2024 |
co-pilot of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber known as the Bockscar during the mission that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9... 7 KB (785 words) - 04:08, 12 April 2024 |
avoid delaying the mission, Sweeney traded airplanes with the crew of Bockscar to carry the Fat Man atomic bomb to Nagasaki. Captain Frederick C. Bock... 13 KB (1,302 words) - 08:12, 9 February 2024 |
bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, was dropped from the B-29 bomber Bockscar (commonly misspelled Boxcar). The record was originally conceived as a... 28 KB (3,066 words) - 20:14, 22 April 2024 |
(1990 song), a song by Blue Cheer off the album Highlights and Lowlives Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb onto Nagasaki in WWII Manhattan... 2 KB (305 words) - 04:33, 28 December 2023 |
describing the blast in Hiroshima to his supervisor, when the American bomber Bockscar dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb over the city. His workplace again put... 21 KB (2,395 words) - 02:52, 15 March 2024 |
Among the exhibits at the US Air Force's... museum in Dayton, Ohio, is Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki bomb. It is proudly identified as 'the... 52 KB (5,993 words) - 18:40, 8 May 2024 |