Bockscar was the B-29 that dropped the Fat ... 21, 1942, and the famous bombers returned to combat during the Korean War. The B-52 is still flying high after six decades. It became operational ...

For the first time Friday, Joseph P. Sweeney climbed into the “Bockscar” bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb on Nagasaki and changed the course of world history. Sweeney has a personal tie to ...

In Japan, the bomber performed its long-range systematic ... credited the reversible props for safely landing their B-29 ...

In fact, the B-29 bomber has remained so controversial that there were protests when it was put on display at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC. Then there is Bockscar, another B ...

The bomber that dropped the weapon, Bockscar, is part of the collection at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. It is part of the World War II gallery. » INTERACTIVE: Explore the ...

Martin Bomber plant wasn’t just one building ... is history.The 'Enola Gay' and then 'Bockscar' dropped the bombs, forcing Japan to surrender, ending the war.Many experts say it saved countless ...

i.e. the bomber that brought WWII to an end! The b-29 did so, of course, via the atomic bombs "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" ...

which produced the two historic B-29 bombers, Enola Gay and Bockscar. The two B-29's carried the atomic… read more Brian York talked about the Martin Bomber Plant, which produced the two ...

The U.S. dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, from a B-29 Bomber known as Bockscar. The destruction from the explosion spanned nearly three miles and destroyed ...

This column was originally published on Aug. 5, 2018. When the B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, it was the end result of work done in Central Washington ...

Might as well start at the end, i.e. the bomber that brought WWII to an end ... Hiroshima and Nagasaki by B-29s “Enola Gay” and “Bockscar” on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively ...