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The name of the airplane that dropped the bomb on Nakasaki was a B-29 Superfortress named "Bockscar" (or "Bock's Car"). The name is a pun on "boxcar" after the name of its aircraft commander, Captain Frederick C. Bock, although he wasn't the commander for the Nagasaki mission. Check out the link for a picture of the plane:
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This plane carried carried the nuclear bomb code-named "Fat Man", with the city of Kokura as the primary target and Nagasaki the secondary target.
When a plane that was to assist in instrumentation & photographic support failed to rendezvous with Bockscar above Kokura on time, the crew had to continue on to the seconday target of Nagasaki where the bomb was eventually dropped.
If the assist plane had arrived above Kokura on time, Nagasaki might have been spared, and instead Kokura may have been the city to experience the destruction of a nuclear explosion.
On a side note, the B-29 plane "Enola Gay" dropped the bomb code-named "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima 3 days earlier.
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Bockscar, sometimes called Bock's Car or Bocks Car, is the name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped the "Fat Man" nuclear weapon over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, the second atomic weapon used against Japan.
Bockscar was flown on that day by the crew of another B-29, The Great Artiste, and was commanded by Major Charles W. Sweeney, commander of the 509th Composite Group's only bomber squadron, the 393rd. The Great Artiste, which was the assigned aircraft of the crew with whom Sweeney most often flew, was slotted in preliminary planning to drop the second bomb, but it had been fitted with observation instruments for the Hiroshima mission.
ENOLA GAY
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. They are the only instances of the use of nuclear weapons in warfare
. The B-29 Enola Gay, piloted and commanded by 509th Composite Group commander Colonel Paul Tibbets, was launched from North Field airbase on Tinian in the West Pacific, about six hours flight time from Japan. The Enola Gay (named after Colonel Tibbets' mother) was accompanied by two other B29s,The Great Artiste which carried instrumentation, commanded by Major Charles W. Sweeney, and a then-nameless aircraft later called Necessary Evil (the photography aircraft) commanded by Captain George Marquardt.[21]
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Bock's Car. It was named after the Aircraft Commander, Fred Bock. (However he was not the Commander who flew the bombing mission.) It is sometimes called Bockscar because of the way the lettering on the side seems to run together into one word. For the same reason, it is sometimes called Bocks Car because there is no apostrophe on the nose art picture. However, all the historical references call it "Bock's Car" and that is in keeping with the intent of the name.
Its the Enola Gay! I read a book on it called 'Hiroshima' by John Hersey. Very good.
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