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===Nagasaki mission=== The Hiroshima mission was followed by another atomic strike. Originally scheduled for 11 August, it was brought forward by two days to 9 August owing to a forecast of bad weather. This time, a nuclear bomb code-named "[[Fat Man]]" was carried by B-29 ''[[Bockscar]]'', piloted by Major [[Charles W. Sweeney]].{{sfn|Polmar|2004|pp=35β38}} ''Enola Gay'', flown by Captain George Marquardt's Crew B-10, was the weather reconnaissance aircraft for [[Kokura]], the primary target.{{sfn|Campbell|2005|p=32}} ''Enola Gay'' reported clear skies over Kokura,{{sfn|Sweeney|Antonucci|Antonucci|1997|pp=210β211}} but by the time ''Bockscar'' arrived, the city was obscured by smoke from fires from the conventional bombing of [[Yahata]] by 224 B-29s the day before. After three unsuccessful passes, ''Bockscar'' diverted to its secondary target, Nagasaki,{{sfn|Sweeney|Antonucci|Antonucci|1997|pp=213β215}} where it dropped its bomb. In contrast to the Hiroshima mission, the Nagasaki mission has been described as tactically botched, although the mission did meet its objectives. The crew encountered a number of problems in execution and had very little fuel by the time they landed at the emergency backup landing site [[Yontan Airfield]] on [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=527 |title=Boeing B-29 Superfortress |publisher=National Museum of the United States Air Force |access-date=3 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124072508/http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=527 |archive-date=24 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hiroshima">{{cite web |last=Rossenfeld |first=Carrie |url=http://hiroshima-remembered.com/history/nagasaki/page3.html |title=The Story of Nagasaki: The Missions |publisher=hiroshima-remembered.com |year=2005 |access-date=3 August 2010 |archive-date=29 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029151532/http://hiroshima-remembered.com/history/nagasaki/page3.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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