Pumpkin bombs were conventional aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World War II. It was a close replication of the Fat Man plutonium bomb with the same ballistic and handling characteristics, but it used non-nuclear conventional high explosives. It was mainly used for testing and training purposes, which included combat missions flown with pumpkin bombs by the 509th Composite Group. The name "pumpkin bomb" was the term used in official documents from the large, fat ellipsoidal shape of the munition casing instead of the more usual cylindrical shape of other bombs, intended to enclose the Fat Man's spherical "physics package" (the plutonium implosion nuclear weapon core).
Pumpkinbombs were conventional aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World...
uses an arsenal of Halloween-themed equipment, including grenade-like PumpkinBombs, razor-sharp bats, and a flying Goblin Glider, to terrorize New York...
Major Charles Sweeney. The name Fat Man refers to the early design of the bomb because it had a wide, round shape. Fat Man was an implosion-type nuclear...
missions from Tinian, and three combat missions in which it dropped pumpkinbombs on industrial targets in Japan. On 9 August 1945, Bockscar, piloted...
12 combat missions against targets in Japan dropping high-explosive pumpkinbombs. In the postwar era, the 509th Composite Group was one of the original...
1945: 327 B-29s bomb the arsenal area. 20 July 1945: 1 B-29 drops a Pumpkinbomb (bomb with same ballistics as the Fat Man nuclear bomb) through overcast...
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completed at least 50 practice drops of inert or conventional explosive pumpkinbombs, targeting islands around Tinian and later the Japanese home islands...
training and practice missions in which it bombed Japanese-held Pacific islands and dropped pumpkinbombs on targets in Japan. It was the only aircraft...
occurred when a Pumpkinbomb was released in the bomb bay of the B-29 Strange Cargo while it was taxiing. The bomb fell through the closed bomb bay doors onto...
arsenal of advanced, Halloween-themed equipment, including grenade-like PumpkinBombs, razor sharp bats, and a flying Goblin Glider, to terrorize New York...
Naval Ordnance Test Station in California with Thin Man and Fat Man pumpkinbombs to test their ballistic, fuzing and stability characteristics. The 509th...
100 m) put the B-29s above the effective range of Japanese flak. Each Pumpkinbomb mission was conducted by a formation of three aircraft in the hope of...
raids against Japanese cities, each armed with a single high-explosive "pumpkin" bomb; further practice missions took place on 24, 26 and 29 July. Japanese...
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drop were inconclusive. The bombsight was checked and found error free. Pumpkinbomb drops were conducted, but were accurate. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets believed...
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