This is the bomber B-29 Superfortress that was baptized like Bockscar, it would be the airplane in charge to send on the Japanese city of Nagasaki the atomic bomb Fat Man the 9 of August of 1945. It was seen the use of nuclear weapons to force the surrender of Japan because the estimate of lives lost was 1 million if an invasion of the  Japonese Islands

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