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Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: LLv34_Snefens on September 11, 2004, 06:52:16 PM
Being without access to the game I've been reading some up on some of my books on WWII and stumbled across some interesting tidbits. Now I just wanted to test you as well in some of the interesting facts I found. One of the answers came as a suprise to me.

Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: Guppy35 on September 11, 2004, 06:57:50 PM
Fatman
Bock's Car
Kokura


Dan/Slack
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: United on September 11, 2004, 07:02:48 PM
Ah, that didnt take long.  I even knew one! :D
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: justin_g on September 12, 2004, 12:15:35 AM
Bock's Car is actually an incorrect spelling - it is written as one word: "BOCKSCAR"

See pic here: http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/museums/getimage.htm?id=4382

Heres one for you - the plane was named for its commander, Capt. Frederick C. Bock. But who was actually flying "BOCKSCAR" on August 9, 1945?
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: TimRas on September 12, 2004, 12:30:04 AM
(http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/URG/images/b29-006.jpg)

(http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/COLLECTIONS/CG-JPAP/Images-800x1200/CGP-JPAP-018.jpg)

(http://www.rosenbergtrial.org/fatmanx.jpg)

(http://www.ettnet.se/~stefan-a/hiroshima/mini006g.jpg)

 (http://www.ettnet.se/~stefan-a/hiroshima/mini006i.jpg)

(http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/atomic/atomic-qv04-0309.jpg)
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: Guppy35 on September 12, 2004, 11:53:16 PM
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Originally posted by justin_g
Bock's Car is actually an incorrect spelling - it is written as one word: "BOCKSCAR"

See pic here: http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/museums/getimage.htm?id=4382

Heres one for you - the plane was named for its commander, Capt. Frederick C. Bock. But who was actually flying "BOCKSCAR" on August 9, 1945?


Hey I was going from memory! :)

Charles Sweeney was flying BOCKSCAR, while Bock was Sweeney's plane "The Great Artiste".  That plane had been to Hiroshima as well, loaded with Scientific instruments and it made little sense to switch them to another plane so Sweeny had Bock's and Bock flew Sweeney's bird.

Dan/Slack
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: Rasker on September 13, 2004, 01:27:18 AM
here's a bonus brain teaser, what was the lead headline in the L.A. Times the day after the Hiroshima A-bomb drop?
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: Rasker on September 16, 2004, 11:04:24 AM
The answer is, of course "Richard Bong Killed".

Off to the side was a smaller headline, "New weapon dropped on Japan".
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: wojo71 on September 16, 2004, 07:11:28 PM
To take the triva thing one step further, Harley Davidson some years ago brought out the  FLSTF  Fatboy in 1984 it was named after the two atomic bombs.......fatman and littleboy ....and it only came in gray with yellow highlights same colors as the two bombs dropped in 1945 .............................
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: Arlo on September 16, 2004, 07:40:52 PM
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Originally posted by wojo71
To take the triva thing one step further, Harley Davidson some years ago brought out the  FLSTF  Fatboy in 1984 it was named after the two atomic bombs.......fatman and littleboy ....and it only came in gray with yellow highlights same colors as the two bombs dropped in 1945 .............................


Fatman and Littleboy had yellow headlights?
Title: WWII Trivia
Post by: Pongo on September 17, 2004, 10:24:13 AM
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Originally posted by justin_g
Bock's Car is actually an incorrect spelling - it is written as one word: "BOCKSCAR"

See pic here: http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/museums/getimage.htm?id=4382

Heres one for you - the plane was named for its commander, Capt. Frederick C. Bock. But who was actually flying "BOCKSCAR" on August 9, 1945?


That picture shows it as two words. The only gap is between the s and the c, all the other letters overlap.
Bocks Car.
Just saying.