Today I Found Out
The Men Who Dropped the Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2017x221)
Air date: Sep 12, 2017
If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spa→“Little Boy”, was anything but: snout-nosed and weighing in at 9,700 pounds, it resembled nothing more than an obese metal baseball bat. At 8:15 a.m. local time, poised above Hiroshima’s Aioi Bridge, Little Boy dropped.
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Sources:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2010/02/author_admits_he_was_duped_by.html
http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7387
http://http//www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/us/charles-sweeney-84-pilot-in-bombing-of-nagasaki-dies.html
http://www.mputtre.com/id45.html
http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7317
http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2011/July%202011/0711nagasaki.aspx
http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7387
Image Credit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress#/media/File:B-29_in_flight.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:39th_Bombardment_Group_B-29_Superfortress.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_boy.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic_cloud_over_Hiroshima_(from_Matsuyama).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic_cloud_over_Hiroshima.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tibbets-wave.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pattonphoto.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tibbets-wave02.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:45th_Bombardment_Squadron_Boeing_B-29-40-BW_Superfortress_42-24579_2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic_cloud_over_Nagasaki_from_Koyagi-jima.jpeg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nagasakibomb.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_W._Sweeney.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_W._Tibbets.JPG
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkas:Fat_man.jpg
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