Bockscar
Sign in to saveBockscar, sometimes called '''''Bock's Car''', is the United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II in the secondand most recentnuclear attack in history. One of 15 Silverplate B-29s used by the 509th, Bockscar'' was built at the Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant at Bellevue, Nebraska, at what is now Offutt Air Force Base, and delivered to the United States Army Air Forces on 19 March 1945. It was assigned to the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group to Wendover Army Air Field, Uta
Key facts
- Aircraft.name
- Bockscar
- Aircraft.image
- Bockscar 050809-F-1234P-003.jpg
- Aircraft.caption
- Bockscar nose art: the Fat Man silhouettes represent four pumpkin bomb missions (black) and the atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki (a red symbol, fourth in the line of five symbols).
- Aircraft.type
- B-29-36-MO Superfortress
- Aircraft.manufacturer
- Glenn L. Martin Company, Omaha, Nebraska
- Aircraft.military_serial
- 44-27297
- Aircraft.first_flight
- April 1945
- Aircraft.in_service
- April 1945 – September 1946
- Aircraft.preservation
- The National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Airplane history
- Atomic bomb mission
- Mission and crew
- Kokura and Nagasaki
- Landing and debriefing
- Post-war status
- Crew members
- Regularly assigned crew
- Nagasaki mission crew
- National Museum of the United States Air Force display
- Notes
- References
- External links
Bockscar, sometimes called '''''Bock's Car''', is the United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II in the secondand most recentnuclear attack in history. One of 15 Silverplate B-29s used by the 509th, Bockscar was built at the Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant at Bellevue, Nebraska, at what is now Offutt Air Force Base, and delivered to the United States Army Air Forces on 19 March 1945. It was assigned to the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group to Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, in April and was named after captain Frederick C. Bock.
Bockscar was used in 13 training and practice missions from Tinian, and three combat missions in which it dropped pumpkin bombs on industrial targets in Japan. On 9 August 1945, Bockscar'', piloted by the 393rd Bombardment Squadron's commander, Major Charles W. Sweeney, dropped a Fat Man nuclear bomb with a blast yield equivalent to over the city of Nagasaki. The explosion destroyed about 44% of the city, killed 35,000 people, and injured 60,000 people.