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Bombardment Group aircraft. Its nose art was painted after the Nagasaki mission. The name purportedly referred to the talents of the bombardier,
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Nagasaki on its instrument support mission, and landed with it on Okinawa at the conclusion of the mission. It was the only aircraft to directly participate in both missions.
651:'We named our airplane for him,' Sweeney said Thursday. 'We used to call him the Great Artiste. He was so good at his work. He was the sparkplug of our crew. We all loved him.'
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Remembered: A History of the 509th Composite Group as Told by the Veterans Themselves, 509th Anniversary Reunion, Wichita, Kansas October 7–10, 2004
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885:. Buchanan, Michigan: 509th Press.
552:Lieutenant Charles Levy, bombardier
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451:2nd Lieutenant Fred Olivi, co-pilot
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727:"Putting on a Shine"
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419:Pease Air Force Base
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1952:George Kistiakowsky
1907:Charles Critchfield
1327:1948 Waycross crash
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733:on 12 February 2012
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521:Robert E. Davenport
518:Theron L. Blaisdell
411:SB-29 "Super Dumbo"
251:North Field, Tinian
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57:General information
2017:Henry DeWolf Smyth
1796:Robert Oppenheimer
1751:Priscilla Duffield
1587:Boeing B-17 family
941:The New York Times
832:on 17 October 2013
590:The New York Times
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506:Charles B. Rinard
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2155:Pumpkin bomb
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2042:John Wheeler
2012:Louis Slotin
2007:Emilio Segrè
1957:George Koval
1937:James Franck
1922:Enrico Fermi
1867:Luis Alvarez
1826:Paul Tibbets
1801:Deak Parsons
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2057:Leona Woods
2022:Leo Szilard
1997:Bruno Rossi
1942:Klaus Fuchs
1846:Ed Westcott
1836:Harold Urey
1534:Up An' Atom
1286:Silverplate
1192:Super Guppy
836:17 December
341:atomic bomb
287:on 4 July,
225:Silverplate
149:Silverplate
2317:Categories
2206:Demon core
2150:Little Boy
2071:Operations
1887:Niels Bohr
1877:Hans Bethe
1860:Scientists
1806:Boris Pash
1685:Los Alamos
1585:See also:
1527:Top Secret
1443:Full House
1197:Mini Guppy
1129:Transports
848:References
374:New Mexico
347:. Captain
193:New Mexico
103:In service
2248:Plutonium
2114:Enola Gay
1932:Val Fitch
1882:Aage Bohr
1831:Bud Uanna
1700:Oak Ridge
1450:Jabit III
1429:Enola Gay
1394:Big Stink
1291:Survivors
1281:Operators
1260:KJ-1 AEWC
1210:Airliners
421:in 1991.
363:Enola Gay
358:Enola Gay
323:Hiroshima
106:1945-1948
2304:Category
2160:Thin Man
2121:Bockscar
1715:Wendover
1695:New York
1690:Montreal
1680:Inyokern
1655:Berkeley
1636:Timeline
1544:In media
1457:Kee Bird
1401:Bockscar
1301:Variants
968:18 March
948:18 March
901:59148135
874:58554961
810:18 March
737:18 March
533:Bockscar
397:Displays
391:Labrador
345:Nagasaki
333:Bockscar
309:Koriyama
201:Labrador
135:nose art
120:Labrador
93:44-27353
2278:Uranium
2145:Fat Man
2138:Weapons
1710:Trinity
1675:Hanford
1660:Chicago
1296:Tip Tow
1233:Tupolev
1162:Tupolev
1126:Tankers
1092:Tupolev
1020:Bombers
338:Fat Man
267:Captain
260:of the
171:Captain
98:History
1670:Dayton
1664:Site A
1576:(1980)
1568:(1951)
1560:(1945)
1377:(1956)
1369:(1956)
1361:(1956)
1353:(1955)
1340:(1952)
1269:Topics
1217:Boeing
1139:Boeing
1068:YB-50C
1028:Boeing
1010:Boeing
975:pages.
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297:Guguan
293:Marcus
155:bomber
144:was a
89:Serial
1643:Sites
1240:Tu-70
1169:Tu-75
1151:KC-97
1110:Tu-85
1105:Tu-80
1058:XB-44
1053:XB-39
1046:KB-29
1041:B-29D
597:Notes
316:Major
1650:Ames
1436:FIFI
1146:C-97
1100:Tu-4
1075:B-54
1063:B-50
1036:B-29
970:2013
950:2013
918:ISBN
897:OCLC
887:ISBN
870:OCLC
860:ISBN
838:2014
812:2013
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305:Kobe
289:Truk
285:Rota
240:Utah
152:B-29
111:Fate
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