While the United States began conventional bombing of Japan as early
Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War ... to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the ...
Though ordered not to circle longer than fifteen minutes,
Colonel Paul Tibbets, a 30 year old colonel from Illinois, led the mission to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. The Enola Gay, the plane which ...
But until Japan's final surrender offer, five days after the Nagasaki
... the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of
On August 6, the city of Hiroshima, Japan remembers those who lost their lives when the atomic bomb fell. Thousands attend the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ...
“It's too late to stand up after everyone dies,” said Masaaki Takano, 82, who walked home from school amid toxic "black rain" that followed the ...
The document below is the order to attack Japanese cities with atomic bombs. In it, the Acting Army Chief of Staff, Thomas Handy, orders Commanding General ...
Having been told about the successful Trinity Test of an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, 1945. It was his ...