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August 6 1945 ~ 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima Mission
Self | Aug 6, 2016 | MkJessup

Posted on 08/05/2016 11:46:13 PM PDT by mkjessup

71 years ago, the crew of the B-29 Enola Gay under the command of Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, operating under General Curtis LeMay, dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare on Hiroshima Japan.

We all know (or should know) the story. Today's sob sisters and history revisionists all make the same whining and wailing excuses for why America should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan, but just like the radioactive dust those bombs produced, the opinions of such low lifes will also eventually dissipate into the insignificant categories of history.

And God Bless President Harry Truman for having the guts to authorize the mission not only on Hiroshima, but 3 days later on Nagasaki, thus ending the War in the Pacific.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: atomic; hiroshima; truman; ww2
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To: Jimmy Valentine

As a teenager I remember crawling around inside the Enola Gay during the air show at Bolling AFB in the early to mid fifties.


41 posted on 08/06/2016 4:06:31 AM PDT by wita
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To: W.

Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.


42 posted on 08/06/2016 4:08:39 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Tucker39

Colonel. Don’t remember if it was full or Lt. Col.


43 posted on 08/06/2016 4:10:03 AM PDT by wita
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To: Fresh Wind

“Gay” was Tibbetts’ mother’s middle name. Would the LGBTPDQs demand that Mom’s name be changed, as well? That USED TO BE an honorable, utilitarian word, with only pure and happy connotations.


44 posted on 08/06/2016 4:24:31 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: shibumi

P.S. Tibbetts was a higher rank than I’d guessed. He made full “Bird” Colonel early in 1945.


45 posted on 08/06/2016 4:26:48 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Gaffer

Bockscar, the Nagasaki bomber is in Dayton, ohio at the USAF museum. Nagasaki was a backup. The primary was Kokura. It was avoided due to weather conditions. Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong on the Nagaski flight. A fuel pump broke on Bockscar, which meant they couldn’t use one of their bomb bay tanks. The recon/photo planes missed the rendevous. Kokura was obscured by cloud. Bockscar wnt through several passes before dropping the bomb because the weather at Nagasaki was iffy as well. Finally, Bockscar landed on Okinawa instead of Tinian, literally running on fumes.

CC


46 posted on 08/06/2016 5:09:19 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: mkjessup

It was either drop the Bomb or prepare for an actual invasion of Japan that could have cost over one million American lives and at least ten times that among the Japanese. And that invasion would have resulted in the Japanese forever resenting us.


47 posted on 08/06/2016 5:28:37 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: mkjessup; wille777

I’m thinking a collection of stories like the two of you have would make an interesting documentary on the History channel.


48 posted on 08/06/2016 5:35:06 AM PDT by pa_dweller (Let the baby seal clubbing begin.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

J. Robert Oppenheimer believed that fifty atomic bombs would be needed to defeat Japan. Scientists and military figures considered them as nothing more than large-scale conventional weapons. Each atomic bomb could accomplish what took a week with conventional bombing and, as the radiation effect was still unknown, there seemed no reason to withhold using them. Members of the 509th were informed that their stay on Tinian would be a long one.

http://www.atomicheritage.org/location/tinian-island


49 posted on 08/06/2016 5:54:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: wita

I remember the day——I was almost 13.

All the kids in my Boston neighborhood marched, banging pots and pans,celebrating.

.


50 posted on 08/06/2016 5:57:11 AM PDT by Mears
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To: mkjessup

June 6, 1944 - D-Day.

August 6, 1945 - Bomb Day - Hiroshima.


51 posted on 08/06/2016 6:09:08 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: mkjessup
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52 posted on 08/06/2016 6:13:01 AM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither.)
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To: Mollypitcher1; Tucker39

Yes, I’m well aware of the origin of the Enola Gay’s name, but facts don’t matter to liberals with an agenda to push and history to rewrite.

How many innocent and noble gays were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the evil atomic bomb? That alone should justify removing the “Gay” word from the aircraft’s name. /s


53 posted on 08/06/2016 6:25:44 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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To: RayChuang88

On August 5, 1945, a B-29 was maneuvered over a bomb loading pit and then taxied to Runway Able at North Field. At 2:45am on August 6, the B-29 - piloted by Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets of the US Army Air Force, who had named the plane after his mother, Enola Gay - took off. On August 6 at 8:15 am Hiroshima time, the Little Boy bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. A minute later, the bomb exploded.

The great destruction of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not immediately spur Japan to surrender. On August 14 it was decided that an additional attack was necessary. Hundreds of B-29s from Guam, Saipan, and Tinian - loaded with powerful Torpex bombs - converged on the Japanese city of Koromo to deliver the last attack of the war. The Japanese surrendered unconditionally the next day.
http://www.atomicheritage.org/location/tinian-island


The Japanese were a stubborn enemy. In and of itself, the atomic bomb was not the only factor, but it was a MAJOR factor. Simple version is we dropped the bomb and the war ended, there was much more to it than that.


54 posted on 08/06/2016 6:27:34 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: wille777

Here in a little info with some dates that might put your grandfather in context.

http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/mp/p4s23.shtml


55 posted on 08/06/2016 6:42:32 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: mkjessup

If it’s August, it must be time to whip this dead horse again.


56 posted on 08/06/2016 7:03:17 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: dp0622
In the past 100 years, something happened taht made men’s knowledge and ability go off the charts!!!!

Roswell.

57 posted on 08/06/2016 7:05:39 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: mkjessup

My mom also worked those Kaiser shipyards as a secretary.

She met my dad at a cafe in Oakland.

Nope, that’s it...no secret squirrel crap, just sayin’... that’s how I came to be...WWII ship building.


58 posted on 08/06/2016 7:08:38 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: mkjessup

Time for the Liberals to come out of the woodwork, weep, wail, get glassy eyed, foam at the mouth and fall down and get skinned up because we used TWO BOMBS to do what two hundred planes loaded with 20,000lb of high explosives or incendiary bombs could have done without ending the war.

Wonder how many of these jerks would have volunteered to be in the first wave of landing craft going into a still at war Japan.


59 posted on 08/06/2016 7:12:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: mkjessup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alberta

Project Albert was a fast moving, complicated project. Lots of interesting information here.

3 “bomb assembly kits” were shipped to Tinian per the above source. Another source indicated the 3rd unit was held in reserve in CA and/or test assembled in CA. These (kits) were complete independent bases, buildings for administration, assembly and operations, all the equipment, scientific gear, etc EVERYTHING.

Two were assembled. On sept 7 disassembly began and they were dropped in the ocean for security reasons.


60 posted on 08/06/2016 7:20:57 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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