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    Pumpkin bombs were conventional aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World...
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  • uses an arsenal of Halloween-themed equipment, including grenade-like Pumpkin Bombs, razor-sharp bats, and a flying Goblin Glider, to terrorize New York...
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    Major Charles Sweeney. The name Fat Man refers to the early design of the bomb because it had a wide, round shape. Fat Man was an implosion-type nuclear...
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    Bockscar (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    missions from Tinian, and three combat missions in which it dropped pumpkin bombs on industrial targets in Japan. On 9 August 1945, Bockscar, piloted...
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    509th Composite Group (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    12 combat missions against targets in Japan dropping high-explosive pumpkin bombs. In the postwar era, the 509th Composite Group was one of the original...
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    1945: 327 B-29s bomb the arsenal area. 20 July 1945: 1 B-29 drops a Pumpkin bomb (bomb with same ballistics as the Fat Man nuclear bomb) through overcast...
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    completed at least 50 practice drops of inert or conventional explosive pumpkin bombs, targeting islands around Tinian and later the Japanese home islands...
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    12,000 lb (5.4 t) Tallboy bomb 22,000 lb (10.0 t) Grand Slam bomb Firebombing Firestorm Pumpkin bomb, test Fat Man atom bomb casings filled with nearly...
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  • her father, she threw a 'retcon bomb' at him. Spider-Man, believing it to be no more harmful than a regular pumpkin bomb, caught it with his web and threw...
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  • Up An' Atom (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    bombing missions and pumpkin bomb missions against industrial targets in Taira and Hamamatsu, Japan. Capt. Bob Lewis's crew B-9 flew it on a pumpkin bomb...
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