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To: Calvin Locke
I question the possibility of this post because I know of no railroad between the Port of Hiroshima on the island of Honshu and the Port of Nagasaki on island of Kyushu. Also, there is the disinformation idea that Nagasaki was targeted because of its Christian community. Primary target of the August 9th mission was Kokura - Army HQ and arsenal. There are a number of errors in the referenced article.
61 posted on 02/08/2014 6:18:11 PM PST by Minutemantek (VETERAN & FREE THINKER)
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To: Minutemantek; cynwoody
I must have forgot hit the final "post" to cywoody's post earlier in the afternoon.

I did append "Supposedly" because I couldn't find the original source, and I knew the source had retracted some parts of the "story", but I remembered it being about adding tritium to Little Boy as insurance.

62 posted on 02/08/2014 8:37:13 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Minutemantek
I question the possibility of this post because I know of no railroad between the Port of Hiroshima on the island of Honshu and the Port of Nagasaki on island of Kyushu.

I disagree. By 1941, it was possible to ride Japan Government Railroad (JGR) trains from Hiroshima to Nagasaki, though of course the passenger would have to change trains several times (remember by 1941 the Japanese built the Kannon Tunnel between Honshu and Kyushu islands and extended the rail line from Hakata (Fukuoka) to Nagasaki).

79 posted on 02/09/2014 9:29:28 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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