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The aircraft was flown to the Museum on 26 September 1961, and its original markings were restored. In September 1946 it was given to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. About 44% of the city was destroyed 35,000 people were killed and 60,000 injured.Īfter the war, Bockscar returned to the United States in November 1945. Sweeney, dropped the Fat Man nuclear bomb with a blast yield equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT over the city of Nagasaki. On 9 August 1945, Bockscar, piloted by the 393d Bombardment Squadron's commander, Major Charles W. It was assigned to the 393d Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group to Wendover Army Air Field, Utah in April.īockscar was used in 13 training and practice missions from Tinian, and three combat missions in which it dropped pumpkin bombs on industrial targets in Japan. 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. One of 15 Silverplate B-29s used by the 509th, Bockscar was built at the Glenn L. The National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohioīockscar, sometimes called Bock's Car, is the name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped the Fat Man nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki in the second atomic bombing of World War II. Bockscar nose art: the "fat man" silhouettes represent four pumpkin bomb missions (black) and the atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki (a red symbol, fourth in the line of five symbols)