Bockscar
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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 i
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).
Bockscar at Dayton before it was moved indoors. On the Nagasaki mission, it flew without nose art, and with a triangle N tail marking, rather than the circle arrowhead shown here.
Bockscar with temporary triangle N tail marking, on 9 August 1945, the day of its atomic bombing mission
Preserved Tinian "bomb pit #2", where Fat Man was loaded aboard Bockscar
Pumpkin bomb
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Pumpkin bombs were large conventional aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World War II. Their physical characteristics cl
Bockscar
…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…
A pumpkin bomb