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07-23-2009, 12:23 PM
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Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. On August 6, 1945, the first choice target, Hiroshima, was having clear weather. At 8:15 a.m. (local time), the Enola Gay's door sprang open and dropped "Little Boy." The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above the city and only missed the target, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 feet. Staff Sergeant George Caron, the tail gunner, described what he saw: "The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside... It looked like lava or molasses covering a whole city..." The cloud is estimated to have reached a height of 40,000 feet. Hiroshima's population has been estimated at 350,000; approximately 70,000 died immediately from the explosion and another 70,000 died from radiation within five years. A survivor described the damage to people: "The appearance of people was... well, they all had skin blackened by burns... They had no hair because their hair was burned, and at a glance you couldn't tell whether you were looking at them from in front or in back... They held their arms bent [forward] like this... and their skin - not only on their hands, but on their faces and bodies too - hung down... If there had been only one or two such people... perhaps I would not have had such a strong impression. But wherever I walked I met these people... Many of them died along the road - I can still picture them in my mind -- like walking ghosts..."   ·  · |
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07-23-2009, 03:11 PM
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 My Rank: SERGEANT Poster Rank:961 Male Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 741 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 11 Post(s)
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Re: Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor
That's what you get for attacking Pearl Harbor. Not funny any more...is it?  |
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07-23-2009, 07:58 PM
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 My Rank: CORPORAL Poster Rank:1372 Male Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 431 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 17 Post(s)
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Re: Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor
Hey Fuck them Japs. They snuck up on our people and murdered them. So fuck-you if you didn't like our response. You woke the sleeping giant and you got beat over the head. So now we buy our cars and electroincs from you. All from the new factories we helped build.
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07-23-2009, 08:11 PM
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 My Rank: PRIVATE Poster Rank:10644 male Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 12 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)
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Re: Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor
Well, they bombed a military base. There were people there who went to war to give their lives to their country willingly, and you bombed a town which had women and childrien in it, i mean, thats not so fair is it?
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