A Nagasaki temple after the second atomic bomb was dropped. Our inside view of Bockscar, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the second atomic weapon used in wartime, got me reading about the ...

The B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar" at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. On Aug. 9, 1945, the B-29 "Bockscar" dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki, which led to Japan ...

Bockscar, the Superfortress on display at the National Museum of the Air Force, dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, three days after Enola Gay dropped another atomic ...

Trailing hundreds of miles behind the Enola Gay, the Bockscar approached Japan carrying the most devastating weapon the world had ever known, and when the coded message crackled through the static ...

Then there is Bockscar, another B-29 that hasn’t shared in such controversy—at least not to the level of its sister aircraft. In fact, Bockscar is largely forgotten even though it carried the ...

Bockscar was actually one of fifteen specially modified “Silverplate” B-29s that were assigned to the 509th Composite Group. While most B-29s were armed with eight .50 caliber machine guns in ...