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    Frederick Carl Bock Jr (January 18, 1918 – August 25, 2000) was an American bomber pilot during World War II who took part in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki...
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    Bockscar (redirect from Bocks Car)
    Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, in April and was named after captain Frederick C. Bock. Bockscar was used in 13 training and practice missions from Tinian...
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    villain and manager Frederick C. Bock, World War II pilot Fred Bodsworth, Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist Frederick Russell Burnham, American...
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    Bockscar to carry the Fat Man atomic bomb to Nagasaki. Captain Frederick C. Bock and his C-13 crew flew The Great Artiste to Nagasaki on its instrument...
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    version. The name "pumpkin bomb" originated with Parsons and Dr. Charles C. Lauritsen of the California Institute of Technology, who managed the development...
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    circles over Yakushima as previously agreed with Sweeney and Captain Frederick C. Bock, who was piloting the support B-29 The Great Artiste. Instead, Hopkins...
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    Superfortress named Bockscar after the plane's command pilot Captain Frederick C. Bock, who flew The Great Artiste with his crew on the mission. Bockscar...
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    older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.2% male and 52.8% female. Frederick C. Bock, bomber pilot Frederik Meijer, businessman Mike Vining, sergeant major...
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    targets at Toyama, Niihama, Yaizu, and Ube, Yamaguchi. Capt. Frederick C. Bock and crew C-13 flew Full House on a pumpkin bomb mission to Komoro, Nagano...
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    mission. Including training and test flights, crews B-8 (McKnight) and C-13 (Bock) flew the most missions, with 20 total (5 combat). Crew B-7 (Price) is...
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