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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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    Bockscar (category Collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force)
    assemblies in the eight days leading up to the second mission, including a final rehearsal the day before. The Great Artiste, which was the assigned aircraft...
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    the primary, the city of Kokura. After exceeding the original departure time limit by nearly a half-hour, Bockscar, accompanied by The Great Artiste,...
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    North Field, in the Northern Mariana Islands, about six hours' flight time from Japan, accompanied by two other B-29s, The Great Artiste, carrying instrumentation...
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    Kermit Beahan (category Recipients of the Silver Star)
    that bombed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Flying as part of the crew of The Great Artiste which was a reference to him, purportedly because he could "hit...
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    Charles Sweeney (category Recipients of the Air Medal)
    for the missions. On 6 August 1945, Sweeney and Albury piloted The Great Artiste as the instrumentation and observation support aircraft for the atomic...
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    Little Boy (category History of the Manhattan Project)
    calculated the yield as 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ). Based on the Project Ichiban data, and the pressure-wave data from The Great Artiste, the yield was...
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    Luis Walter Alvarez (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    observed the Trinity nuclear test from a B-29 Superfortress, and later the bombing of Hiroshima from the B-29 The Great Artiste. After the war Alvarez...
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    Frederick C. Bock (category People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    known as the Hump. He also participated in air raids on Japan flown from China. On the Nagasaki Raid, Bock flew the B-29 bomber The Great Artiste, which...
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    rather than the planned 30,000 feet (9,100 meters) – then recovered at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, with both Bockscar and the B-29 The Great Artiste. B-29-40-MO...
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    George R. Caron (category People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    of the cloud about one minute after detonation using his personal AFGA 620 camera. A handheld 16 mm film camera on The Great Artiste captured the only...
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    Project Y (category History of the Manhattan Project)
    the instrument plane The Great Artiste. They dropped "Bangometer" canisters to measure the force of the blast, but this was not used to calculate the...
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    509th Composite Group (category Bombardment groups of the United States Army Air Forces in the Japan campaign)
    illustrate the level of security affecting the 509th's personnel and equipment. En route to Tinian on 4 June 1945, the B-29 that became The Great Artiste made...
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    Fat Man (category Cold War aerial bombs of the United States)
    wheeled to the bomb bay of the B-29 Superfortress named Bockscar after the plane's command pilot Captain Frederick C. Bock, who flew The Great Artiste with...
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    Project Alberta (category History of the Manhattan Project)
    Simultaneously The Great Artiste dropped its three Bangometer canisters, after which the B-29s immediately performed steep 155-degree diving turns, The Great Artiste...
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    Pumpkin bomb (category World War II aerial bombs of the United States)
    developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World War II. It was a close replication of the Fat Man...
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  • some airplay, the band failed to garner any commercial success. Their second album, The Great Artiste, also sold poorly. Nevertheless the band developed...
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    order issued by the 509th Composite Group on August 5, 1945 for the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. The Order was signed...
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    Harold Agnew (category People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    flew as a scientific observer in The Great Artiste, piloted by Charles Sweeney, which tailed the Enola Gay as the instrumentation aircraft. Agnew later...
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  • Pal-Chaudhuri The Great Artiste, a USAAF WWII B-29 Superfortress bomber Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists or The Great Artists, a 19th-century...
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    for the previous two decades – the great value of strategic forces in bombing an enemy's industrial complex and of tactical forces in controlling the skies...
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  • The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a United States heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theatre during World War II, and...
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    and Great Britain issue a formal declaration of war against Japan the next day. December 11: The same day after Germany and Italy declare war on the United...
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  • camera takes a close-up of the veteran, it only raises visions of this great artiste in his prime in similar scenes in his earlier movies and becomes a sad...
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  • other footage produced in the United States early in the Cold War on the subject of nuclear warfare. Without any narration, the footage is edited and presented...
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    Kothamangalam Subbu (category Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education)
    which the great artiste of those days Smt K. B. Sundarambal played the lead role. Ashokamitran had profiled humorously how this film took shape in the Gemini...
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    Johnson) 1976: Kursaal Flyers - The Great Artiste (UK Records) - track 9, "Television" 1976: Dave Edmunds - Here Comes the Weekend (Swan Song Records) -...
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  • includes several theatre artistes from Calicut. Sooraj S. Kurup composed the film's soundtracks, which consisted of two songs. The lyrics were written by...
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    consider her one of our great artistes. There was nobody who performed like her. She was very versatile. When she entered the industry, everybody had...
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    Tinian Naval Base (category Airfields of the United States Navy)
    Tinian in 1945 Left to right: Big Stink, The Great Artiste, and Enola Gay parked next to a North runway B-29s of the 462d Bombardment Group on Tinian in 1945...
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