A "brand new" B-29 named "Doc"

For quite a few years, "Bockscar" the plane that dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki, was a "walk-through" fuselage display at the Air Force Museum about 3 miles from my house (less as the crow flies) in Dayton OH.

I've looked through the bomb sight and had my finger on "the button" Probably when I was 12-14 Years old.

It was a long walk, but me and some friends would usually do it several times each summer.


cool story

somehow I don't see kids walking to a museum these days

(though last time I went to Europe I brought my nephew and one of his friends, both 18 at the time. I made sure we stopped by one of the world war 2 cemeteries in Belgium...that made quite and impact on them)