WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
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Detailed explanation-1: -Morris Jeppson, finished the assembly and armed the bomb in the bomb bay after takeoff. Little Boy being loaded into the Enola Gay . After 6:00, the bomb was fully armed on board the Enola Gay. Tibbets announced to the crew that the plane was carrying the world’s first atomic bomb.
Detailed explanation-2: -The atomic bomb used at Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, was “Fat Man". The bomb was dropped by a USAAF B-29 airplane named “Bockscar", piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Major Charles Sweeney. The bomb weighed 10, 000 pounds and had a diameter of 60 inches.
Detailed explanation-3: -On August 6, 1945, the crew of a modified Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare, called “Little Boy, ” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forces flew the Enola Gay during an atomic test program in the Pacific; it was then delivered to be stored in an airfield in Arizona before being flown to Illinois and transferred to the Smithsonian in July 1949.
Detailed explanation-5: -Tinian Island was the launching point for the atomic bomb attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.