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In other words, there were plenty more where the first two came from.

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ping

[A.A. Cunningham]

[back row (L-R)] Captain Beahan, Captain Van Pelt, Jr., First Lt. Albury, Second Lt. Olivi, Major Sweeney
Staff Sgt. Buckley, Master Sgt. Kuharek, Sgt. Gallagher, Staff Sgt. DeHart, Sgt. Spitzer

Bravo Zulu to the crew of Bock's Car for a job well done.

[NavVet]

The Japanese had little concern for the fate of school children, or anyone else in territory they controlled. The list of Japanese war crimes is extensive. From sex slaves, to the live dissection of prisoners in medical schools and biological warfare centers.

The Japanese have only themselves to blame for what ultimately happened.

[Flintlock]

They deserved every single erg of energy.

[LibLieSlayer]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki both leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling, when I think of ALL of the AMERICANS that survived because of these bombs... and ALL of their AMERICAN offspring that were born because their fathers did not die invading the Japanese homeland!

LLS

[Dixie Yooper]

In other words, there were plenty more where the first two came from.

The Enola Gay and Bock's Car were 2 of 15 B-29's that were specially fitted for delivery of atomic bombs. We were also processing all of the uranium we had obtained from the Germans into bombs. I don't know if we actually had any more bombs ready at the time Fat Man was used.

[caver]

I had always heard that we only had the two atomic bombs. Now they’re saying we had more?

[sono]

“War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

William Tecumseh Sherman

[AU72]

My wife's grandfather was a Transport Commander in the Navy and his flagship was the first American warship into Nagasaki after the bomb.

He received the surrender of what was left of the city in his wardroom. I only found out about when I ran across some pictures in his house showing some really haggard Japanese sitting at a table.

They presented him with a tea set which is now in a marine museum in Maine.

He never talked about but after 4 years in the Pacific he turned down a chance at advancement in DC and retired.

[OESY]

Looks like Nagasaki proves this grandmother's statement wrong,
but imagine the condemnation if Truman had been a Republican.
Media elites would not be so eager to resuscitate his reputation.

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[TonyInOhio]

My wife’s aunt was General Groves’ secretary. She took her oath to secrecy so seriously that we only discovered her Manhattan Project job after her death, some 40 years later.

[Pistolshot]

Actually, there was just enough materials left for another smaller bomb. The Oak Ridge processing had not caught up with requested materials, and some of the explosives had not been finished. It would have been smaller than 'Fat Man'.

The third bomb would have possibly 'fizzled'.

[Badeye]

Time to sit back and reflect on a very good bombing day long long ago.....

[TRY ONE]

Remember, Klintoon apologized to Japan for the US’s dropping the BIG-ONE on them. If we had dropped more NUK’s he would have been so busy apologizing that he would have had no time for Monica!

[Thermalseeker]

I just visited the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson last weekend. Bock's Car, along with demilitarized versions of "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" are all on display, along with more modern nukes.

It's an amazing museum. I highly recommend it if you are ever in the area, but plan to spend at least a whole day, maybe two.

[Red6]

The first massive invasion occurring in the Southern islands after 1 Nov 1945 (Olympic - 4 Corps) we would have been preceded by nukes at approximately a two week interval (The speed at which we could produce them). Sometime after 1 April 1946 (Cornet - 5 Corps) the second massive invasion would have occurred a little south of Tokyo. In all it was planned to nuke Japan between 7 and 9 times and come in with a force of more than 9 Corps. They quit after the second.

[Diocletian]

A prayer for the innocents who died that day.

[PzLdr]

Actually, there weren’t. If I recall, they only had one morwe ready to go.

[GATOR NAVY]

Unlucky Nagasaki got nuked because the primary target, Kokura (now part of the city of Kitakyushu) was obscured by cloud cover that morning.

[Romulus]

War crimes and the whiners who make excuses for them.