Sixty-five years ago (Aug. 6, 1945), Lt. Theodore Van Kirk, as flight navigator for the Enola Gay, embarked on a mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (Nagasaki was two days later on Aug. 8, 1945) and essentially change the world as it was known. “One said, ‘We think that you’ll be OK if [...]
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The Big Picture presents another excellent series of photographs to remember the first atomic bomb used during warfare. Many of the photos highlight the mass destruction of life and property that took place on August 6, 1945. The U.S. B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay” took off from Tinian Island very early on the morning of [...]
Think you’ve had a tough life? Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip to Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 when the US dropped the first atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns and stayed overnight before going home to, yup, Nagasaki – where the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug. [...]
