Casino67 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Klsouth: Original Headline: Aug 6, 1945: American bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender, made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a much greater loss of life were the United States to invade the Japanese mainland. And so on August 5, while a “conventional” bombing of Japan was underway, “Little Boy,” (the nickname for one of two atom bombs available for use against Japan), was loaded onto Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets’ plane on Tinian Island in the Marianas. Tibbets’ B-29, named the Enola Gay after his mother, left the island at 2:45 a.m. on August 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 @Casino67 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2AhV-QU1_M One of my Brothers In Law said he and the guys he served with (Sea Bees) cried, because they knew they were going to live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidesAPaleHorse Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 6AUGUST1945: http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/RAPH6969/73.jpg Statement by President Truman http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/RAPH6969/74.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 6AUGUST1945: Think of it as slum clearance/urban renewal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 @Valin @RideAPaleHorse @Casino67 Can you imagine today? Obama was wringing his hands getting his panties in a twist and had to check with Valerie Jarrett just to eliminate one dirtbag (OBL). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 @Valin @RideAPaleHorse @Casino67 Can you imagine today? Obama was wringing his hands getting his panties in a twist and had to check with Valerie Jarrett just to eliminate one dirtbag (OBL). If it were me it would be..Are you sure? Fine...What do you want to do kill or capture him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidesAPaleHorse Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 @Valin @RideAPaleHorse @Casino67 Can you imagine today? Obama was wringing his hands getting his panties in a twist and had to check with Valerie Jarrett just to eliminate one dirtbag (OBL). If it were me it would be..Are you sure? Fine...What do you want to do kill or capture him? If it were ME........it would be........."Why are you bothering me with details......... PULL THE DAMNED TRIGGER..........." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 @Valin @RideAPaleHorse @Casino67 Can you imagine today? Obama was wringing his hands getting his panties in a twist and had to check with Valerie Jarrett just to eliminate one dirtbag (OBL). If it were me it would be..Are you sure? Fine...What do you want to do kill or capture him? If it were ME........it would be........."Why are you bothering me with details......... PULL THE DAMNED TRIGGER..........." I'd say capture...ring every bit of info you can out him then give him two behind the ear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidesAPaleHorse Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 @Valin @RideAPaleHorse @Casino67 Can you imagine today? Obama was wringing his hands getting his panties in a twist and had to check with Valerie Jarrett just to eliminate one dirtbag (OBL). If it were me it would be..Are you sure? Fine...What do you want to do kill or capture him? If it were ME........it would be........."Why are you bothering me with details......... PULL THE DAMNED TRIGGER..........." I'd say capture...ring every bit of info you can out him then give him two behind the ear. Oh.......you mean OBL. Well, same thing. Capture him and you have to feed him and provide him with a qur'an and a cot and if you tried to interrogate him by any other means than the "comfy chair", you'd have every bleeding heart SOB in the world crying and whining about how cruel you are. To me, that makes no difference whatsoever. I'd make sure he was snuffed, pronto. There's plenty of other birds that will sing given the proper motivation. I thought you were talking about the Japanese or pisslam in general, in which case my thoughts are the same. Japan was a cancer and a large dose of radiation cured the problem there. Same with pisslam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidesAPaleHorse Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 P.S. Actually, TWO large doses of radiation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Aug 9, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference's demand for unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man," on August 11 in the event of such recalcitrance, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the date up to August 9th. So at 1:56 a.m., a specially adapted B-29 bomber, called "Bock's Car," after its usual commander, Frederick Bock, took off from Tinian Island under the command of Maj. Charles W. Sweeney. Nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, the very industry intended for destruction. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 a.m., 1,650 feet above the city. The explosion unleashed the equivalent force of 22,000 tons of TNT. The hills that surrounded the city did a better job of containing the destructive force, but the number killed is estimated at anywhere between 60,000 and 80,000 (exact figures are impossible, the blast having obliterated bodies and disintegrated records). General Leslie R. Groves, the man responsible for organizing the Manhattan Project, which solved the problem of producing and delivering the nuclear explosion, estimated that another atom bomb would be ready to use against Japan by August 17 or 18—but it was not necessary. Even though the War Council still remained divided ("It is far too early to say that the war is lost," opined the Minister of War), Emperor Hirohito, by request of two War Council members eager to end the war, met with the Council and declared that "continuing the war can only result in the annihilation of the Japanese people..." The Emperor of Japan gave his permission for unconditional surrender. For those interested....Yale Law School: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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