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This day in History 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
History.com ^ | August 6, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 08/06/2007 3:11:20 AM PDT by abb

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The results speak for themselves. The two atom bombs ended WWII. End of argument.
1 posted on 08/06/2007 3:11:23 AM PDT by abb
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To: abb

Let the MSM hand wringing begin.


2 posted on 08/06/2007 3:15:15 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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“many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.”

So the US started the Cold War????? I thought there were two sides in the Cold War? Are they sure they can’t blame George Bush?


3 posted on 08/06/2007 3:16:14 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: mainepatsfan

What you said...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-et-weektv6aug06,1,5486625.story?coll=la-headlines-business

On HBO, the stories of WWII atomic-bomb survivors
August 6, 2007

It’s hard to imagine HBO’s disturbing documentary on survivors of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan appearing on an American TV network 10 or 20 years after the event. Filmmaker Steve Okazaki tried — and failed — to make it for the 50th anniversary.

There is apparently enough emotional scar tissue built up to allow HBO’s premiere of “White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” at 7:30 tonight, exactly 62 years after the United States detonated the first-ever nuclear bomb over Hiroshima. The second, and so far last, atomic bomb was dropped three days later. It ended World War II.

Why is the time finally right?

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4 posted on 08/06/2007 3:17:30 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

the msm will most likely keep reporting about the bad bad US dropping the bomb...

they rarely if ever report about the japanese death marches and always report but step over the sneak attack of the japanese...

by the end of the day....some how jorge bush will also be at fault!!!!


5 posted on 08/06/2007 3:24:03 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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Bravo Zulu gentlemen. Job well done.

6 posted on 08/06/2007 3:24:31 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: abb

7 posted on 08/06/2007 3:25:31 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: mainepatsfan
Let the MSM hand wringing begin.

Weenies. The dropping of the bombs on Japan was an unalloyed good.

8 posted on 08/06/2007 3:25:37 AM PDT by gridlock (Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump)......)
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To: abb

The “first shot in the Cold War” was heard in November, 1944 when Communist junior officers and CPOs in the Greek Fleet (then at Alexandria) mutinied and had to be violently suppressed by Royal Marines. Then the reds tried to take over Athens, requiring Churchill to divert a corps’ worth of troops from the Italian front to quash them. Not all the shooting in Europe in 1944-45 was directed at the Axis, nor did the Cold War wait until VJ-Day to get hot.


9 posted on 08/06/2007 3:27:57 AM PDT by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070806/pilot.shtml

Decatur resident recalls friendship with Enola Gay pilot

By Ronnie Thomas
rthomas@decaturdaily.com · 340-2438

Nancy Jones recalls meeting Paul Tibbets at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Wash., where she lives and works for Boeing.

“He gave a speech and had a book signing,” Jones said. “I asked him to sign a book for my brother-in-law, E.C. Hall. He looked up and said, ‘Where in hell is Easy?’ ”

Jones is visiting Hall and his wife, Joy, at their apartment at Riverside Assisted Living. A visitor steered the conversation to a discussion about Tibbets, who, on this date 62 years ago, piloted his B-29, the Enola Gay, over Hiroshima, Japan, and dropped the first atomic bomb, helping to end World War II.

“He would remember me as Easy,” Hall said. “I got the nickname in junior high school in Wichita Falls, Texas, and I remained a captain so long in the Air Force, they called me ‘Captain Easy.’ ”

Hall became a friend with the legendary flier during the mid-1950s at old Hunter Air Force Base in Savannah, Ga.

Serving under Tibbets

“He was my boss, commander of the 308th Bomb Wing,” Hall said. “I was flying a C-97 at the time. I was a co-pilot for a couple of years then made aircraft commander, the youngest at the time. I was at Hunter five years, and Joy and I married there.”

Hall said Tibbets apparently “took a liking to me” after he and his crew took him on a flight.

“From then on, whenever he needed to go someplace, he would call for me,” Hall said. “I felt good about that because as wing commander, he had a choice. There were many flights, but I remember one trip in particular when we flew him to Omaha, Neb., to meet with Gen. Curtis LeMay.”

LeMay was known as the father of Strategic Air Command and was vice presidential running mate of independent candidate and former Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace in 1968.

Hall said when the command rotated to North Africa in the late 1950s, Tibbets made a special request.

“By that time, he had divorced and married his current wife, Andrea, a French woman,” Hall said. “They’ve now been together more than 50 years. Anyway, their young son was with his dad near Casablanca, and Paul asked me to fly him home to Hunter. The boy at the time spoke only French, and I didn’t recall much from my college class. It was interesting, but we made it. We came home in a military air transport C-54.”

Training pilots

Later, Tibbets gave Hall a choice of a T-33 air training command or flying KC-135’s with Strategic Air Command.

“I was ready to get out of SAC, and I chose to train pilots at the old base in Greenville, Miss.,” he said. “Paul left Hunter for MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., and to stay in touch, I’d fly down there for visits. At the time, I was a lowly captain and he was now a brigadier general. We’d sit underneath a grapefruit tree and talk about everything. He’d pick my brain about younger pilots, and I’d tell him what I thought.”

He said he last saw Tibbets years ago in Atlanta at the annual National Business Aircraft Association show, when Tibbets was president of Columbus, Ohio-based Executive Jet Aviation, a global all jet air taxi company, and Hall worked for Air Research, headquartered in Los Angeles.

Living in Columbus

Tibbets retired from the company in 1987 and lives in Columbus. He is 92.

Hall, who retired from the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel, said he remembers Tibbets for not only being an American aviation hero but for being a gentleman as well.

“He was a great man, and it is an honor for me to know him,” Hall said.

He recalls that Tibbets did not drink or smoke and was an excellent ham operator until he lost his hearing.

“I e-mailed him a few minutes ago,” Hall said, “and wished him the best from Joy and me.”


10 posted on 08/06/2007 3:28:18 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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So I guess those same historians think an invasion of Japan would have led to peaceful coexistence with the Soviets???!!


11 posted on 08/06/2007 3:30:08 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: gridlock

If we’d had it just a year earlier think of the millions of lives that would have been saved.


12 posted on 08/06/2007 3:32:23 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: abb

It was just what the doctor ordered...


13 posted on 08/06/2007 3:33:33 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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By 1949, the Soviets had developed their own atomic bomb

Yeah, right. And the Rosenburgs were just a sweet innocent couple from New York...

14 posted on 08/06/2007 3:40:35 AM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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I’m sure the Rosenburgs were democrats.


15 posted on 08/06/2007 3:47:20 AM PDT by jhroberts
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The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime,,,,

,,,and Japan surrendered.

16 posted on 08/06/2007 3:47:43 AM PDT by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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As I tell all the liberal wusses that cry about Hiroshima, there are penalties for backing guys that shove people into boxcars to be shipped off and burned in ovens.


17 posted on 08/06/2007 3:52:33 AM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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I agree with you and I hate leftists who try to rewrite History. Every time we have an anniversary for these dates I get a warm and fuzzy feeling... because I know that millions of Americans would have never been born if their fathers had died taking the Japanese home islands!

Screw pc and screw the dims!

LLS

18 posted on 08/06/2007 3:54:58 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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“So the US started the Cold War?????”

General George Patton disagreed... and no leftist POS liberal dim Historian is going to be able to rewrite that bit.

BTW, someone ask the author how he feels about Russia starting up Cold War II. pooty started this one all by his lonesome!

LLS


19 posted on 08/06/2007 3:57:33 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: mainepatsfan

“So I guess those same historians think an invasion of Japan would have led to peaceful coexistence with the Soviets???!!”

Hah! I hadn’t thought of it that way. If we had invaded and lost a million men, then we would have been good buddies with the Soviets!


20 posted on 08/06/2007 4:30:48 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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