Hiroshima Afterwards

Hiroshima had the privilege of being the first town ever to be hit with a nuclear bomb. Nagasaki was second and caused the end of the Second World War. It also save the lives of many thousand men. I knew two of them. There were no complaints from them. Others object but as Americans say: Pearl Harbour began it. Nagasaki ended it. More at Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The results were not pretty but then wars are not. The photos were taken a few days later which is why some of the corpses are swollen. One question that does not seem to get answered or even asked is whether there was a third bomb waiting to go if that had been what it took.
PS Yes, there were third, fourth etc. ready to go if the need had arisen but the Emperor decided to throw the towel in. See   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34pxr23Nhw

The aircraft took off from Runway Able on Tinian Island in the North Marianas. Atomic Traveller shows many relevant locations.
 

Would I drop the bomb again? Yes
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'Would I drop the atomic bomb again? Yes, I would'

Theodore Van Kirk was the navigator aboard the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima 65 years ago. Now the sole survivor of the crew, how does he live with the deaths of 200,000 people? [ Hint:- Without the slightest difficulty - Editor ]........

Van Kirk was 24 when he joined the crew of the Enola Gay and by then he had already flown more than 50 bombing raids over Europe and North Africa. Most of those flights were in the company of his great friends, Tibbets and Thomas Ferebee, the Enola Gay's bombardier. Together, they formed the core of the Hiroshima mission. In the six months prior to the mission they and other members of the 509th Composite Group had been holed up in Wendover Field, Utah, training for an unspecified bombing run amid total secrecy. The words "atomic" and "nuclear" were never mentioned...........

Did he ever wish he had never taken part in the Enola Gay's atomic mission?

"No, I was proud to be on the Enola Gay. The war ended on 14 August. I don't know when it would have ended if we had not dropped the atomic bombs."

Would you do it again?

"Under the same circumstances � and I realise you can never have them exactly again � yes, I would do it again."
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The left wing poofters of the Grauniad wanted him to whine about killing civilians. He did not oblige. Spot on. They ignore Japanese evil. Others do not.

 

Runway Able
Was the starting point for Enola Gay when she went to Hiroshima with Little Boy

 

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The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. The entire set is available below. Please contact Sean L. Malloy (smalloy@ucmerced.edu) if you have any information that might help identify the original photographer.
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The people who complain about this one are prone to be political activists. Some are naive. Others are malicious and disciples of  Antonio Gramsci   the chief theoretician of the communist party whose aim was the destruction of civilization. His followers are well on the way to success


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