Bockscar

Tyler Storck

Bockscar is the military plane that dropped Fat Boy, a nuclear bomb, on Nagasaki to help end WWII. The blast was equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT and leveled the city. Nagasaki was not there first target, Kokura was, but the conditions were not good for the drop. The crew for the mission was the crew of another b-52 The Great Artiste and the captain was Major Charles Sweeney. When Bockscar returned from the mission it remained in use but is now permanently displayed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton Ohio. The B-52 was originaly assembled in Nebraska.

This is the temporary tail marking for the mission to drop fat boy on August 9, 1945