Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

The well-known B-17 Flying Fortress was not a machine to be messed with. The airplane was capable of carrying about 8,000 pounds of deadly bombs on some short-range missions, and about 4,000 pounds of explosives on longer missions. It is the third most-produced bomber of all time, ranking behind the four-engined B-24 and twin-engined Ju-88.

Fat Man

Clear the way, we got a fat man coming through! A "fat man" was any one of these massive, teardrop-shaped bombs.  Though it was a generic and general name for the troops, it is best remembered by most to be the type of atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. These deadly and massive bombs weighed well over 10,000 pounds and were over 3 meters long.