To: oceanview
I believe Bock's Car dropped the Nagasaki bomb. someone correct me if I am wrong. You are correct. Bock's Car is on display at the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB in Daydon, Ohio.
30 posted on
08/01/2005 7:47:05 PM PDT by
stevem
To: stevem
Correct, it is at Wright Patterson in Ohio. The pilot was Colonel Tibbits, whom is still alive.
It is rather eerie to look up into those open bomb bay doors.
It did end the war with Japan and saved 100s of thousands of American lives. It saved even more Japanese lives. They would have lost millions in an invasion. With total air superiority we would have bombed Japan for months before an invasion. The direct loses from bombings would have been in the 100s of thousands and the death from disease and starvation would have been in the millions. The Japanese were spared the total destruction of their culture by the atomic bomb.
38 posted on
08/01/2005 7:56:04 PM PDT by
cpdiii
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