Word: bockscar
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...Frederick L. Ashworth, 93 Weaponeer on the Bockscar...
...about 1:30 in the morning on the 9th, we gathered at the Bockscar, and [Major Charles] Sweeney [the pilot] and the flight engineer ran through the preflight tests. The engineer discovered that the transfer pumps, which transfer gasoline from the reserve tank into the main tanks, weren't working. There was 600 gal. of gasoline there, but we wouldn't have access to it. But Tibbets told him, "You don't need that gas, so there's no reason to delay this...
...Frederick L. Ashworth, 93 Weaponeer on the Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki...
...Charles "Don" Albury, 84 Co-pilot on a B-29 that accompanied the Enola Gay and on the Bockscar...
...Frederick L. Ashworth, 93 Weaponeer on the Bockscar...