Fred Olivi, co-pilot of Bock’s Car passed away at the age of 82. Bock’s Car was the second B-29 to drop an atomic bomb, the target was Nagasaki.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/04/10/obit.olivi.ap/index.html
By: aero51 - 11th April 2004 at 22:55
Fred wrote a good book called ‘Decision at Nagasaki: The Mission That Almost Failed’.
http://www.museumofthesoldier.com/olivi.htm
I met him at Oshkosh in 2000 and he signed a copy of his book for me. Sad loss.
By: Papa Lima - 11th April 2004 at 15:29
. . . and here’s the aircraft in question, photographed by me at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio, last summer (and you thought Hendon was dark!)
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April 11, 2004 at 2:55 pm