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Grew up in the town that made the plutonium for Fat Man, good old Hanford, WA. Went to Richland high school, we had mushroom clouds on the sides of our football helmets.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:55 amLived in Kennewick, know what you mean about The Bombers. Worked at Hanford too.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:03 amDon’t forget the B-29. More money was spent developing it- $3 billion vs. $2 billion for the Manhattan Project. As some Dollardites (Dan the Infidel, for one) previously pointed out that plane had nearly free reign over Japan- too fast and too high. We were running out of targets near late July ‘45 and could have kept firebombing every city.
Most people think that August 9th, 1945 was the final mission over Japan, but it still took several days for it to become official. I came across this website but am sure at least few readers here have read the book “The Last Mission” by Jim B. Smith. I was I-searching “longest bomb run during WWII” during a pissing match between Lancaster and B-17 and B-24 fans when stumbling on to it.
What I found interesting was the actual final signatures of surrender by Japan’s War Cabinet were signed during a blackout due to this very mission on August 14th. Were they expecting to get hit by another nuke?
The target was the Nippon Oil Refinery in Akita Japan, nearly 300 miles NW of Tokyo.
http://home.netcom.com/~jb29miss/b29.htm
August 9th, 2008 at 3:51 pmMost necessary…
August 9th, 2008 at 6:04 pm