"Bockscar, a B-29 bomber, dropped the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The plane is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The museum restored the plane's nose art and included a recreation of the Fat Man bomb. The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, features around 350 planes and missiles in its collection, but there's one aircraft in the World War II Gallery that attracts a particularly large crowd."
"On August 9, 1945, a B-29 bomber called Bockscar dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The US bombed Nagasaki three days after dropping the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bombing of Nagasaki initially killed an estimated 40,000 people and injured around 60,000 more, according to the US Department of Energy's Office of History and Heritage Resources."
The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, preserves Bockscar, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The museum restored the aircraft's nose art and installed a recreation of the Fat Man; visitors can walk beneath the plane, guided by volunteers, to see where the 10,000-pound weapon was loaded. The Nagasaki explosion had an estimated initial toll of 40,000 dead and 60,000 injured and an explosive yield of about 20,000 tons of TNT. Bockscar's mission is credited as a major factor in Japan's surrender, alongside the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Japan's diminished military resources.
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