Famous People of Hanford. Albert Einstein. Enrico Fermi. Leslie Groves. Franklin Matthias. Gilbert Church. Crawford Greenewalt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Harry S. Major Charles W. A few days earlier, just 16 hours after the U. But even as Truman issued his statement, a second atomic attack was already in the works. According to an order drafted in late July by Lt. Leslie Groves of the U. Army Corps of Engineers, director of the Manhattan Project, the president had authorized the dropping of additional bombs on the Japanese cities of Kokura present-day Kitakyushu , Niigata and Nagasaki as soon as the weather permitted.
Still, the effect was devastating: close to 40, people were killed instantly, and a third of the city was destroyed. The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki seen from Koyagi-jima on August 9, According to Truman and others in his administration, the use of the atomic bomb was intended to cut the war in the Pacific short, avoiding a U.
Photo by the Library of Congress. It seemed a sheet of sun. The day grew darker and darker under a massive dust cloud. At the base of the cloud, fires were springing up everywhere amid a turbulent mass of smoke that had the appearance of bubbling hot tar… The city we had seen so clearly in the sunlight a few minutes before was now an ugly smudge. It had completely disappeared under this awful blanket of smoke and fire.
Destroyed fire trucks amid the wreckage of Hiroshima. In the minutes, hours, and days that followed the bombing, survivors in Hiroshima tried desperately to locate loved ones and care for the thousands of wounded. Some people exhibited horrible burns, while others who outwardly appeared unscathed later died painful deaths from radiation poisoning. Thousands of people were buried in the debris of their homes. Most structures in the city had been constructed of wood with tile roofs.
All but a handful of concrete structures in the city center had been completely leveled. As the information was broadcast around the world, Allied soldiers around the globe felt as though they had received a reprieve from a death sentence. The end of World War II finally appeared to be in sight. This article is part of an ongoing series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II made possible by Bank of America.
On December 7, , Kermit Tyler was called about aircraft approaching Pearl Harbor and told the radar tech not to worry about it. His reply has been debated for the past 80 years. As the American military desperately tried to protect Pearl Harbor, US anti-aircraft shells fell everywhere—and the Japanese got the blame. Weisgall, Naval Institute Press, Pacific Theater of Operations. Article Type. This little-known aircraft was part of the last air battle of World War II.
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