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From: brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
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Subject: Re: North American X-15A-2
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From: Peter Brooks <brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
/ hpcc01:sci.military / Steve.Bridges@Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges) / 11:56 am  Nov  2, 1990 /


Steve Bridges writes:

[list of planes at museum]

B-29 "Bockscar" (dropped second atomic bomb on Nagasaki)

I am curious.  When my father was alive, he told us that the plane
that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki (maybe one of the chase planes?)
flew into the fallout cloud and after landing on Okinawa (where he
was in the Headquarters Company) was sent flying over the ocean
with a minimal aircrew.  They jumped and the plane was to be lost
at sea.  I have been trying to find a detailed history of the Okinawa
campaign so have not been able to confirm or deny this story.
Is there any information on the net about this?

Pete Brooks  pb@hpocia.hp.com