CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -When the Japanese ‘Sallys’-a code name for the Mitsubishi Ki-21 bombers-attacked Calcutta for the first time, two Hurricane squadrons (nos. 146 and 17) took over the air defence of the city. Wing Commander John Anthony O’Neill intercepted three Japanese bombers on the night of December 23 and damaged one of them.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 20th December 1942, a Japanese bomber of the IJAAF (Imperial Japanese Army Air Force) bombarded Calcutta city and with this, the country felt the heat of the Second World War in its own land.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 20th of December of 1942 a Japanese bomber bombarded Calcutta and India felt the heat of the World War II in its own yard. Over the next few days, the city was bombed many times.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Manhattan Project produced two different types of atomic bombs, code-named Fat Man and Little Boy. Fat Man, which was dropped on Nagasaki, was the more complex of the two.