PeterExplainsTheJoke
Petah, why are you bringing stewie to WW2?
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Drop a lil boy and fat man (nukes)
Ah, that makes sense. Now I feel stupid for not seeing that.
Fat Man and Little Boy were the names of the nuclear bomb dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (it may not be little boy, but to that effect im pretty sure.)
Correct.
Little Boy was dropped by the Boeing B-29 named "Enola Gay" on Hiroshima. Fat Man was dropped by a different B-29 named "Bockscar" on Nagasaki. This happened on August 6th and August 9th, 1945.
Both aircraft still exist, with the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian Air And Space Museum at the Udvar-Hazy center in Washington DC, with Bockscar at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
wtf do the names bockscar and enola gay mean?
Name of planes
But what do they mean
It means that's what the crews decided to name their planes
Back in WW2, the pilots named their own planes. They might still, idk. Enola Gay was the first and middle name of the pilot's mom.
OMD made an amazing song about it.
Enola Gay was chosen as the name by the aircraft commander, and named it after his mother.
Bockscar was chosen as a pun on the name of plane's commander, Frederick C. Bock.
Thank you
They don’t have to mean anything they have to be words you can say over the radio without being misheard
Ah yes, "bockscar", not to be misheard and confused with boxcar.
I just went and looked it up because nobody had an answer. Enola Gay was the name of the pilot’s mother “Enola Gay Tibett”
"Bockscar" was named after its original commander, Captain Frederick C. Bock, by combining his last name with the term "boxcar"
It's just bock's car
Well presumably you wouldn’t have two planes with such similar pronunciation in the same fleet.
You’re right
Stewie here, you dullard...
I am the little boy and Peter is the fat man.
We are a reference to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
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Is petah sending stewie to invade japan?
Fat Man and Little Boy...
Have you heard of memes and how they work?
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