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
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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
Pumpkin bomb
…Some Punkins 44-27296 B-7 James N. Price Jr. Visual 14 August 1945 Nagoya Some Punkins 44-27296 B-7 James N. Price Jr. Visual 24 July 1945 Fukushima Bockscar 44-27297 C-13 Frederick C. Bock Visual 26 July 1945 Toyama Bockscar 44-27297 C-15 Charles D. Albury Radar 29 July 1945 Musashino Bockscar 44-27297 C-13…
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