Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
Bockscar
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Bockscar
Bockscar
, sometimes called
Bock's Car
, is the name of the
United States Army Air Forces
B-29
bomber
that dropped a
Fat Man
nuclear weapon
over the Japanese city of
Nagasaki
during
World War II
in the second – and last –
nuclear attack
in history. One of 15
Silverplate
B-29s used by the 509th,
Bockscar
was built at the
Glenn L. Martin Aircraft 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
393d Bombardment Squadron
,
509th Composite Group
to
Wendover Army Air Field
,
Utah
in April.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License