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** A United States B-29 Bomber, Bockscar, drops an atomic bomb, codenamed " Fat Man ", on Nagasaki, Japan, at 11: 02 a. m. ( local time ).
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** The second completed Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber catches fire in the air and crashes into a building just north of Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, killing all ten aboard the plane – including famed Boeing test pilot Edmund " Eddie " Allen – and 19 or 20 people on the ground.
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