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Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

9 August 1945

The B-29 Bockscar, diverted from its primary target Kokura by cloud and smoke, dropped the plutonium bomb Fat Man on Nagasaki at 11:02. The hills confined the blast to the Urakami valley but some 40,000 people died immediately and about 70,000 by the end of the year. The Soviet declaration of war had come into effect a few hours earlier.

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— 11:02

Bockscar made three runs over its primary target, Kokura, without sighting the aiming point through smoke and haze, and turned for its secondary with fuel for one pass. The plutonium bomb Fat Man, about 21 kilotons, was dropped through a break in the cloud at 11:02 and burst some 500 metres above Matsuyama-machi in the Urakami valley, three kilometres north-west of the planned aiming point over the harbour. The ridges confined the destruction to the valley, where the Mitsubishi works and the cathedral stood; about 40,000 people were killed at once and some 70,000 by the end of the year.

Left picture : At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column. S
Left picture : At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column. SGeorge R. Caron / Charles Levy · Public domain · source
General notes: Use War and Conflict Number 824 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image.
General notes: Use War and Conflict Number 824 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image.James Montgomery Flagg · Public domain · source
Map of the front against Japan as of 1 Aug 1945: This map is taken from the source "Atlas of the World Battle Fronts in Semimonthly Phases to August 15th 1945: Supplement to The Biennial report of The Chief of Staff of t
Map of the front against Japan as of 1 Aug 1945: This map is taken from the source "Atlas of the World Battle Fronts in Semimonthly Phases to August 15th 1945: Supplement to The Biennial report of The Chief of Staff of tArmy Map Service · Public domain · source
In honor and memory of the U.S. Army Air Force and U.S. Navy airmen who lost their lives while prisoners of war at Hiroshima, Japan, the day of the bomb - August 6, 1945. S/Sgt. Charles O. Baumgartner - USAAF 2nd/Lt. Dur
In honor and memory of the U.S. Army Air Force and U.S. Navy airmen who lost their lives while prisoners of war at Hiroshima, Japan, the day of the bomb - August 6, 1945. S/Sgt. Charles O. Baumgartner - USAAF 2nd/Lt. DurDsdugan · CC0 · source

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