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7 unusual facts about atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki


Bōshi

Setsu had been physically weak since childhood, due to radiation exposure from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Charles Sweeney

Major General Charles W. Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bocks Car carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

History of the Royal Australian Air Force

However, the war was brought to a sudden end by the US nuclear attacks on Japan.

Joe Kieyoomia

Kieyoomia was a POW in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombing but survived, reportedly having been shielded from the effects of the bomb by the concrete walls of his cell.

Sadako

Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子), a childhood Hiroshima atomic bomb victim, who is world-famous for making many origami cranes based on a legend about their healing properties, making paper cranes an international symbol for peace.

St. Antony's Matriculation Higher Secondary School

Visiting of Buddhist monks and gave a lecture about Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb incident.

Željava Air Base

The complex was designed and built to sustain a direct hit from a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb, equivalent to the one dropped on Nagasaki.


377th Fighter Squadron

As a result of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the sudden end of the Pacific War, the deployment plans were canceled, however the unit was retained as part of the Second Air Force under Continental Air Forces and reassigned to Biggs Field, Texas, being equipped with P-51 Mustangs.

Art destruction

Other works of art were destroyed in the Blitz, in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and throughout Southeast Asia.

Bank vault

The most famous is the Teikoku Bank in Hiroshima whose two Mosler Safe Company vaults survived the atomic blast with all contents intact.

Charles Donald Albury

Charles Donald Albury (October 12, 1920 – May 23, 2009) was an American military aviator who participated in both atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

David Cromwell

In 2006, Oliver Kamm challenged Cromwell's dependence on American historian Howard Zinn, and both men's knowledge of source material relevant to America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, asserting that this was "a subject wholly outwith Cromwell's competence".

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

The mission, as revealed by the grim Chief of Staff Asakura (Shinichi Tsutsumi) following the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is to intercept U.S. ships transporting a third nuclear weapon to Tinian Island, the principal base from which American B-29s are striking the Japanese home Islands.

McDonald Ranch House

The weapon used against Hiroshima was a uranium bomb, a type not tested prior to its use in World War II, because it had a simpler design.

Miloslav Topinka

The book is about such people and events as Nerval, Rimbaud, Buhl; and Hiroshima.

Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence

On 9 August, the day of the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese authorities, who were occupying Indonesia, flew future leaders Sukarno and Hatta to Dalat for a meeting with General Hisaichi Terauchi, the commander of the Southern Area.

Serge Elisséeff

On June 1st, 1945, proposals were made to President Harry Truman, Roosevelt's successor, to use a nuclear bomb against Japan as soon as possible, without warning.

Shadowmasters

When Japan surrendered after World War II, Shigeru Ezaki was one of the last Shadowmasters and the mayor of a small town in Iga named Ueno, whose his wife has been just killed in the U.S. atomic bombing in the closing days of the war.

Sunpyre

Leyu Yoshida and her brother Shiro were born to a mother who suffered radiation poisoning due to exposure to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.

The OMD Singles

The "Enola Gay" mix sampled news broadcasts announcing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as well as the J. Robert Oppenheimer quote, "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

Yukiya Amano

In an interview mid-2009 with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Yukiya Amano said he was "resolute in opposing the spread of nuclear arms because I am from a country that experienced Hiroshima and Nagasaki".


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