Friday, July 27, 2007
War → WWII → Victim of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. On August 6, 1945, the first choice target, Hiroshima, was having clear weather. At 8:15 a.m. (local time), the Enola Gay's door sprang open and dropped "Little Boy." The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above the city and only missed the target, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 feet. Staff Sergeant George Caron, the tail gunner, described what he saw: "The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside... It looked like lava or molasses covering a whole city..." The cloud is estimated to have reached a height of 40,000 feet.
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Hiroshima's population has been estimated at 350,000; approximately 70,000 died immediately from the explosion and another 70,000 died from radiation within five years. A survivor described the damage to people: "The appearance of people was... well, they all had skin blackened by burns... They had no hair because their hair was burned, and at a glance you couldn't tell whether you were looking at them from in front or in back... They held their arms bent [forward] like this... and their skin - not only on their hands, but on their faces and bodies too - hung down... If there had been only one or two such people... perhaps I would not have had such a strong impression. But wherever I walked I met these people... Many of them died along the road - I can still picture them in my mind -- like walking ghosts..."
Your Comments
| Aditi |
| itz reaLLy vrY saD......!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 2013-11-02 07:08:20 |
| WesW30 |
| You have to understand why these two bombs HAD to be dropped the empire of Japan had told there people that american GIs where white devils that we would rape and kill them if they got captured and they believed it so wholeheartedly that parents where sacrificing there children just so they wouldn't be subjected to the white devils torture or giving there children guns and telling them to charge troops those bombs saved lives you must see that there where whole community's throwing them selves off cliffs just so they wouldn't get tortured or raped they really believed they would be |
| 2013-10-29 14:22:37 |
| natalia |
| a bomba destruiu a vida de muita gente |
| 2013-10-28 14:01:23 |
| peter |
| i can not bleve it this guy is relly has good luck that he live still i feal bad for that guy |
| 2013-10-17 04:00:40 |
| keaton |
| Pepe....i hope you know why we dropped it right? |
| 2013-10-15 01:27:49 |
| o_o |
| His face in the picture makes me have nightmares T-T |
| 2013-10-14 20:13:13 |
| Hi~ |
| The bomb was somewhat useful in ending the war but i strongly believe that there are some peaceful ways that can be adopted to end the whole episode then. |
| 2013-10-11 16:34:49 |
| Pepe |
| I have no sympathy for these animals. They deserved it for taking so many innocents lives in China and in the Phillipines. |
| 2013-10-11 04:33:57 |
| Citizen of Earth |
| There are no justifications that could ever, in anyway grant either the Axis or Allies the authority in any book or backed by any law to drop bombs on anyone. Both groups of power's are wrong for all wars. War itself tears apart families, communities-people. So for those who take sides for the U.S.-you're wrong. For those who take sides for any Axis powers-you're wrong. Both sides are wrong. Understand right now, this is the quiet before the storm. There will be bloodshed once the Apocalypse happens and neither countrymen or nation will have shelter-no one. |
| 2013-10-02 05:00:23 |
| JAY |
| THATS GOOD FOR JAPS! THEY SHIT PEOPLE OF THOSE TIMES . |
| 2013-09-30 10:21:41 |
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