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Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay
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Commanding officer and pilot Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. waves from the cockpit of his bomber plane at its base in Tinian, on August 6, 1945, shortly before take-off to drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. The day before Tibbets named the B-29 Superfortress after his mother "Enola Gay."
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The crew of the B-29 called the Enola Gay” had no regrets about dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, but prayed that the horrific weapon would never be used again.
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Several thousand years ago, King Solomon wrote, “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Most people remember that adage or at least find it familiar. There is, however, a second sentence the king included in that particular Proverb (15:1). Rarely recalled, it is this: The tongue of the wise […]
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“Everything is connected,” exclaimed Takeshi Miyata as he walked along the railway at the Auschwitz death camps, almost 70 years after Jews were carted off to slaughter in the same location. “Jewish scientists escaped the Nazis, helped America build an atomic bomb, and it was dropped on me.” Anyo
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Harry Truman - decided to drop the atomic bombs which brought the aggressor Japan to its knees. Alternative: Operation Dowfall, the invasion of Japan. Projected 1 million Allied deaths, 2 million Japanese. My father was on Okinawa waiting to invade.
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Amphibious landings that took place from Gallipoli (WWI) right into WWII and post WWII era especially during conflicts against Communism,
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The history of the world is indeed intriguing. There have been events and personalities that have changed its course over time. We can’t really go back and witness everything that happened. But there are moments [...]
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On 6 August 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan that killed some 140,000 people.
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This plane is the predecessor to the B-52, and an icon in its own right.
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Revisionist History and Pragmatic Calculus of The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear Strikes. “It was as though the sun had fallen from the sky,” the man told me his father said about August 6, 1945 in [...]
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