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    The Great Artiste was a U.S. Army Air Forces Silverplate B-29 bomber (B-29-40-MO 44-27353, Victor number 89), assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th...
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    Bockscar (category Collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force)
    assemblies in the eight days leading up to the second mission, including a final rehearsal the day before. The Great Artiste, which was the assigned aircraft...
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    the primary, the city of Kokura. After exceeding the original departure time limit by nearly a half-hour, Bockscar, accompanied by The Great Artiste,...
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    North Field, in the Northern Mariana Islands, about six hours' flight time from Japan, accompanied by two other B-29s, The Great Artiste, carrying instrumentation...
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    Charles Sweeney (category Recipients of the Air Medal)
    for the missions. On 6 August 1945, Sweeney and Albury piloted The Great Artiste as the instrumentation and observation support aircraft for the atomic...
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    Kermit Beahan (category Recipients of the Silver Star)
    that bombed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Flying as part of the crew of The Great Artiste which was a reference to him, purportedly because he could "hit...
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    Luis Walter Alvarez (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    observed the Trinity nuclear test from a B-29 Superfortress, and later the bombing of Hiroshima from the B-29 The Great Artiste. After the war Alvarez...
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    Little Boy (category History of the Manhattan Project)
    calculated the yield as 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ). Based on the Project Ichiban data, and the pressure-wave data from The Great Artiste, the yield was...
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    Frederick C. Bock (category People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    known as the Hump. He also participated in air raids on Japan flown from China. On the Nagasaki Raid, Bock flew the B-29 bomber The Great Artiste, which...
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    rather than the planned 30,000 feet (9,100 meters) – then recovered at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, with both Bockscar and the B-29 The Great Artiste. B-29-40-MO...
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