75 years ago today: First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan . What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They were instead joyful that the war was over for them and the world. But thanks to those bombs, 75 years ago today, Imperial Japan surrendered. On Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. If you've already subscribed, consider a one-time or donation of whatever amount you can spare.

By Tengrain. One man spared tens of millions a horrible fate.The same man who could have prevented the war in the first place.Even so, we destroyed their major cities by firebombing, nuked them twice (to make sure they knew the first one wasn’t an accident) and they still had to think about it.And yet, countries like Iran want to do that to their neighbors.Let us also never forget the brave Sailors of the USS Indianapolis who in 1945 “received orders to undertake a top-secret mission of the utmost significance to national security: to proceed to Tinian island carrying the enriched uranium (about half of the world’s supply of uranium-235 at the time) and other parts required for the assembly of the atomic bomb codenamed ‘Little Boy’, which would be dropped on Hiroshima a few weeks later.”“In July 1945, Indianapolis completed a top-secret high-speed trip to deliver parts of Little Boy, the first nuclear weapon ever used in combat, to the United States Army Air Force Base on the island of Tinian, and subsequently departed for the Philippines on training duty.

Between 70,000 and 80,000 people in the heavily populated city were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm (of a population somewhere around 350,000).

The remaining 890 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while stranded in the open ocean with few lifeboats and almost no food or water. The second installment of our series on how the worst devastation caused by the Atomic bomb was deliberately concealed from Americans for decades.

To become an ad-free subscriber please select one of the following two options. Though convicted, he was later cleared and promoted to RADM before retiring, it haunted him until his suicide in 1968.QUINT: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. The bomb blew up with the force of about 16,000 tons of TNT. As it was he didn’t see overseas service until the Vietnam War.The subject of Peleliu came up recently and we are just passed the 75th anniversaries of IWO Jima and Okinawa. Since the horrific invasion of Japan never happened, the excess inventory of Purple Hearts are still being issued to this day.If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it.We never did convince Japan or the Japanese to surrender. He was a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper.

-one- man decided “enough”. Several had mentioned a peaceful surrender rather than the inevitable decimation of their homeland by an invasion.

It was a heavy thought that rested on all his fellow soldiers. At 0815 local time on 8/6/45 (1915 hours EDT 8/5/45) his bombardier Major Thomas Ferebee released their top-secret payload. I reached over to wake him up.

I have read of estimates of over 1000 people a day were dying Of starvation and neglect in prison camps. It was kinda like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. The U.S. dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people.Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000. I’ve seen a couple of comments on other sites suggesting that we need to atone for the use of it to which I replied that the Japanese never expressed regret for things like the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the actions of Unit 731,…Years ago I saw some documents regarding the Marine portion of the landings. Thankfully, he came home.IMHO the use of the A-bombs spared far more Japanese lives than American. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they rip you to pieces.You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. We could have just waited for the Air Force and the surface Navy (including naval air) to finish starving the Japanese to death. Here's a catchy song by that electronic Wirral band: OMD. Real Clear Politics editor A.B. Their payload was so secret only he, Tibbets, and the weaponeer Navy Captain William “Deak” Parsons knew what was on board. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. We welcome relevant, respectful comments. Calculate when was seven years ago.

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Really cool stuff. It’s always worth noting that this happened, that we did this. He’s got lifeless eyes. I don’t know if their paths ever crossed, but my Great-Uncle Ollie was an aircraft maintainer in the 97th Bombardment Group, of which Tibbets commanded the component 340th Bombardment Squadron. Meat grinders for our boys and the only prisoners being taken were the Japanese who were too wounded to continue fighting.A couple things came to mind on reading this.

What day was 75 years ago. The more I learn about what happened, the more I believe she was right. I do not think it is a celebration, but maybe a cautionary tale. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.At noon, the fifth day, a Mr. Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he saw us.

You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. Col Paul Tibbets waving from Enola Gay before leaving for the bombing of HiroshimaColonel Paul Tibbets flew his B-29 heavy bomber “Enola Gay” over Hiroshima, Japan 75 years ago today. The second installment of our series on how the worst devastation caused by the Atomic bomb was deliberately concealed from Americans for decades. During that war 1 million or so had been used, leaving 500,000 in stock.