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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HeavyMetalOverbite on 2025-05-08 03:42:31+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that en route to Nagasaki to deliver Fat Man, on August 9, 1945, St Elmo’s Fire appeared around the B-29 aircraft…the Bockscar experienced an uncanny luminous blue plasma form around the spinning propellers, “as though we were riding the whirlwind through space on a chariot of blue fire.”