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To: Lancey Howard
One of those little things that always intrigued me was that when we bombed Nagasaki, that city was actually the third target that day. The first two targets were passed over because the clouds were too thick.

Kokura was the primary target but was obscurred by smoke from the fires caused by the previous night's bombing of Yawata and haze. Three runs were made on Kokura when Sweeney decided to head to Nagasaki, their secondary target. So writes Charles Sweeney, pilot of Bock's Car, in War's End, chapter 19.


76 posted on 03/28/2002 8:22:32 PM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
Thank you for the correction on that. For some reason I thought Nagasaki was the 3rd target.

Semper fidelis,
LH

86 posted on 03/28/2002 8:31:24 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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