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Sunday, August 6, 2023

SUNDAY REVIEW / LITTLE BOY’S BIG DAY

 B-29 Enola Gay’s flight path 

GUEST BLOG / By Atomicarchive.com
--On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan carrying the uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy. The first atomic bomb of World War II exploded at 8:16 a.m., in an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured. 

FROM THIS: Loading Little Boy into the Enola Gay

TO THAT: Atomic bomb damage at the T-Bridge (ground zero) Hiroshima. 

EXCELLENT RESOURCE: For more input on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings CLICK HERE. 

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