Best of Wikipedia - Bock's Car

A twice-daily updated collection of some of the best reading on Wikipedia.

Follow @bestofwikipedia to get the links pushed directly to your Twitter client and to submit articles.

Logo by @a_lo.

Created and maintained by avinash.vora.

Nov
5th

Thu

Bock's Car

Bockscar, sometimes called Bock’s Car or Bocks Car, is the name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped the “Fat Man” nuclear weapon over Nagasaki on 9 August 1945, the second atomic weapon used against Japan. The name painted on the aircraft after the mission is a pun on “boxcar” after the name of its aircraft commander, Captain Frederick C. Bock. (via jj)