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A gratuitous gallery of warbirds for Memorial Day

Edit Ars Technica 30 May 2016
Jonathan Gitlin. The workhorse of the US Army Air Corp's Eighth Air Force in World War II was the B-17 ... 16 more images in gallery ... It also has some rather significant planes in its collection, notably Bockscar, one of the two B-29s that dropped atom bombs on Japan in World War II (the Enola Gay lives at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy collection in Dulles, VA) ... Comments ....

A gratuitous gallery of warbirds for Memorial Day [US]

Edit Ars Technica 30 May 2016
Jonathan Gitlin. The workhorse of the US Army Air Corp's Eighth Air Force in World War II was the B-17 ... 16 more images in gallery ... It also has some rather significant planes in its collection, notably Bockscar, one of the two B-29s that dropped atom bombs on Japan in World War II (the Enola Gay lives at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy collection in Dulles, VA) ... Comments ....

Hanks for the memories (Wright State University)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
(Source. Wright State University) ... (Photo by Chris Snyder). It was a moment ... Shine. fundraising campaign ... Here is where Jackie was sitting ... The reception and dinner is held in a hangar right next to Bockscar, the B-29 bomber that dropped a nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II in the second - and last - nuclear attack in history. Hanks is very knowledgeable about Bockscar and many of the planes in the museum....

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Manual (Haynes Publishing Group plc)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Dec 2015
(Source. Haynes Publishing Group plc). Chocks away for Haynes as it launches Boeing B-29 Superfortress Manual ... B-29 'Enola Gay' flew into the history books 70 years ago when the USAAF Boeing B-29 Superfortress made history by dropping the world's first ever atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima with B-29 'Bockscar' dropping the second on Nagasaki 3 days later, bringing the Second World War to a sudden and dramatic close ... (noodl....

15 Facts About The B-29 Superfortress You May Not Know

Edit World History Online 25 Sep 2015
B-29A-30-BN, 42-94106, on a long-range mission via. 1) There were 3,970 B-29s produced between 1943 and 1946. 2) The B-29 was one of the first military aircraft to have a pressurized cabin. 3) The fuselage was designed as a cylinder to handle the pressurization ... 5) B-29 Superfortresses were only used in the Pacific Theater of WWII ... 10) Three days later, on August 9th ‘Bockscar’ dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki ... 1951. via ... ....

92-year-old radar operator has vivid memories of WWII atomic bomb raid

Edit Stars and Stripes 29 Aug 2015
In August 1945, Barney was a radar operator on Bockscar, a B-29 Superfortress based at Tinian as part of the 20th Air Force ... Bockscar was one of 15 B-29s assigned to the 509th Composite Group, now known as the unit that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... After the Nagasaki mission, Barney returned to the Bockscar for one more mission prior to Japan's surrender....

Stroll through History / Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki / For whom the bell in A-bomb site tolls

Edit The Japan News 24 Aug 2015
Charles Sweeney, the pilot who flew the B-29 bomber, Bockscar, which carried the atomic bomb, had apparently also asked a priest to pray for the success of the mission just before taking off from the base in Tinian, according to his book ... Although the primary target of Bockscar was Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture, according to Maj....

Nagasaki bombing survivor shares her story

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 16 Aug 2015
Yoshiko was a high school student working at the train station parcel mail room, putting in a 24-hour day before then having the next day off ... Cloud cover and a fateful series of events led to the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar dropping the atomic bomb with a plutonium core —codename Fat Man — over Nagasaki ... > ....

As Pacific war wound down, ‘we were just trying to stay alive’

Edit Tampa Bay Online 14 Aug 2015
TAMPA — At 20, Frank John Martinich couldn’t really understand the historic nature of the events taking place around him in the Pacific Ocean in the late summer of 1945 ... “I was just doing my job.” ... ❖ ❖ ❖ ... On Aug ... Three days later, a B-29 named Bockscar dropped a second atomic bomb, dubbed “Fat Man,” on the city of Nagasaki, where some 70,000 were killed ... On Sept....

New audio collection shares memories of bombing crews

Edit Stars and Stripes 10 Aug 2015
KENNEWICK, Wash ... Papalia became the group’s official historian ... Among those interviewed are Ray Gallagher, who flew on both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions, and Fred Olivi, the copilot on Bockscar when it dropped the bomb on Nagasaki ... The collection also includes a 1985 speech from Jacob Beser, who was radar specialist on the Enola Gay’s bombing mission over Hiroshima and on the Bockscar ... “This is something that people ask ...   ... ....

Entering the Nuclear Age, Body by Body

Edit Real Clear Politics 10 Aug 2015
Bockscar now had only enough fuel to pass over Nagasaki once and still make it back for an emergency landing at the American air base on Okinawa ... Captain Kermit Beahan, Bockscar's bombardier, activated the tone signal that opened the bomb bay doors and indicated 30 seconds until release ... Ten thousand pounds lighter, Bockscar lurched upward, the bomb ......

In pictures: Nagasaki bombing

Edit BBC News 09 Aug 2015
On 9 August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb ever deployed in conflict, hitting the Japanese industrial city of Nagasaki ... It was carried by the plane Bockscar, which was flown from the Mariana Islands and piloted by Maj Gen Charles Sweeney ... On the day the US was actually intending to bomb the city of Kokura, but bad weather obscured visibility, so Bockscar headed to Nagasaki instead ... It was rebuilt in 1959 ... ....

B-29 called Bockscar changed history with atomic bombing of Nagasaki

Edit Stars and Stripes 08 Aug 2015
Sweeney climbed into the “Bockscar” bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb on Nagasaki and changed the course of world history ... When the bomb exploded, a Bockscar crew member said it felt like the bomber was “being beaten with a telephone pole,” a museum narrative says ... Four-engine B-29s such as the Bockscar, flown to the museum in 1961, were the biggest U.S....
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