Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport and Bockscar is now situated in the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio). Enola Gay and Bockscar are now both museum pieces (Enola Gay is currently in the Steven F. The delivery aircraft for both of those atomic raids was the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, In just those few days both the attacks and the aircraft that carried the weapons were joined together in history. The weather and earlier bombing smoke made Kokura a poor target and Nagasaki then became the second and last atomic target at 11:02.
Three days later on August 9, 1945, Bockscar, flown by Charles Sweeney's crew, carried 'Fat Man', with Kokura as the primary target and Nagasaki the secondary target. Then for a brief second the world stopped and in a moment later the first Atomic Blast took place as 'Little Boy' 1,900 feet (580 m) exploded above the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Aircraft Review : Boeing B-29 Superfortress by Virtavia and Dawson DesignsĨ.16.
