I hope to get in early this morning to inform all of a special movie.
I saw it yesterday. It is titled “The Last BomB” . It is the story of whatwe are reading these last days about the tremendous air campaign against Japan
The movie is very nearly all actual 1945 footage put together by the War Department showing a typical mission from beginning to end. The mission is determined by weatrher. only Tokyo was to be open so that’s where they set the targets. General LaMay made the final decision to attack tarhets 533 and 534. They brought up all the plans for those targets including how many B 29’s from Guam, Tinian and Saipan and P51’s from Iwo Jima. It showed the rendavues, the siteing of rescue vessels along the way, flight paths and on an on. Included were fuel requirements, bomb loads etc.
The movie went with the bombers and showed lots of a B29 interior including pressurized gunner spaces operating remote controlled guns exposed to the atmosphere. It showed P51’s strafinf and destroying stuff after the bombers were safe. The P51’s accompanied but no opposition showed up so they had full loads of ammo to shoot up all kinds of stuff....... fantastic pictures.
The movie I saw came from NetFlix but itwas originall shown on the Smithsonian Channel . All those old movies are archived at he Smithsonian out near dulles.
I recommend highly making an effort to get this movie and read these daily accounts of exactly what is shown.
It was fantastic.
He said when the news came aboard ship of the atomic bomb, wild cheering broke out because the men all knew that there would be no invasion. He said when the surrender occurred that every ship in that section of the Pacific was ordered in to sit in the harbor as far as the eye could see, and that planes flew over in formation by the hundreds. He said, "We wanted the Japanese to know who won the war."
As I wrote in "A Patriot's History of the Modern World," once MacArthur took over Japan, he thoroughly demilitarized the nation. He was so successful that not long afterward, an American reporter was there interviewing Japanese. He talked with some children drawing pictures of their heroes. They had doctors, businessmen, but only one had a picture of a soldier . . . MacArthur.
Thanks Bert
looks like you can find the movie on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+last+bomb+%281945%29
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Good movie. Hadn’t thought about p51’s needing b29 mother ship for navigation, saving fuel reserves and also using the same safety net of rescue.
I’m pretty sure I watched it on YouTube.
You’re right - it’s a fantastic film.