You can read about Bockscar in the site of the museum, here. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic attack against Hiroshima. That museum enables the visitor to get more close-up experiences to the story of that August 6th of 1945.Īs several other aerospace museums it counts with its own B-29 Superfortress… however, if the Enola Gay is displayed at National Air & Space Museum at Dulles, this one displayed at the National Museum of the Air Force (Dayton) is “ Bockscar“, the aircraft which dropped the “ Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. … last November, we visited the National Museum of the Air Force (1) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. A couple of years ago I wrote a post about that story touching it from different points of view that I had experienced in the previous years: Hiroshima Peace Site, Manhattan Project, Einstein’s “ The World as I see it“, Genbaku Dome, Sadako Sasaki’s origami, the “ Enola Gay“, Enola Gay’s Navigator’s Log replica at Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson…
I guess you have had the chance to read about it in several places along the day. Today, August 6th, in 1945 the Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay” dropped over Hiroshima (Japan) the first nuclear bomb, “ Little Boy“, used in combat.
