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Episode 537: The Manhattan Project Part V - Frankenstein's Monster

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The Boxcar Bombing of Nagasaki

Nagasaki was also covered in clouds, but boxcar didn't have enough fuel to return to base with a nine thousand pound bomb aboard. So they had a plan to ditch the fat man, okay, which is literally drop it in the fucking ocean. But just as the pilot decided to just drop fat man via radar on Nagasaki and come what may,. the clouds broke and bombardier captain Kermit Bihan letter rip names used to be named.

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