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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress
- Named after
- Frederick C. Bock
- Participant in
- atomic bombing of Nagasaki
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Ohio
- Image
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar USAF.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bockscar
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BOCKSCAR (o anche Bock's Car o Bocks Car) è il bombardiere B-29 Superfortress (esemplare numero 44-27297) che sganciò "Fat Man", il nome dato alla seconda bomba atomica che colpì la città di Nagasaki, in Giappone, il 9 agosto 1945. Il giorno del lancio l'equipaggio non era quello abituale ma quello di un altro B-29, il "The Great Artiste", e al comando c'era il maggiore Charles W. Sweeney del Massachusetts.
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