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Corabelle

Posted 2007-07-14 6:46 PM (#5489)

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Location: Rapid City, SD

Subject: Bockscar

Can anyone tell me what this name signifies?

Smiley

Posted 2007-07-14 7:29 PM (#5490 - in reply to #5489)

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Location: NW Connecticut

Subject: RE: Bockscar

It's "Bock's Car" I believe it was the name of the B-29 that nuked Nagasaki.....

Darrin

Posted 2007-07-15 10:08 AM (#5511 - in reply to #5489)

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Location: Belleview, Fl

Subject: RE: Bockscar

"Bocks car" was the second B-29 to drop a Atom bomb on Japan, she is sitting inside the Airforce Museum at Wright Patterson Airfield, in Fairborn, Ohio. Or at least she was there a half a dozen years ago when I went there the last I went to Ohio.

Darrin

Corabelle

Posted 2007-07-15 11:47 AM (#5513 - in reply to #5511)

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Subject: RE: Bock's Car

Thanks, Smiley, Vic & Darrin.

Bear

Posted 2007-07-16 2:41 AM (#5526 - in reply to #5489)

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Location: Port Orchard WA

Subject: RE: Bockscar

Hey Cora you were right in the first place There is no ' in the name and on the plane's nose art it is one word Named for the plane's original Commander Capt Bock it is a play on the word Boxcar which is either a RR term of two #6 dice

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Bear

Posted 2007-07-16 2:50 AM (#5527 - in reply to #5489)

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Subject: RE: Bockscar

She is in the AF museum at Wright Patterson AFB which is one of those places everyone should visit at least once. Been there 6 times and ready to go again since the last visit was in the late 80's http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/

BTW Those little planes in the lower right are tiny things like C-141 XB-70 C-5

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Corabelle

Posted 2007-07-16 2:53 PM (#5550 - in reply to #5527)

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Subject: RE: Bockscar

Thanks, Bear. That's the spelling that I came up with initially when I did Goggle it before I posted. Then, I thought maybe I was wrong (Oh, no!), and was hoping that the pilot of the plane, who posts here regularly, would shed some light on the actual flight.

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