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Deutsch: Einsatzkarte für die Bombenangriffe auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki am 6. und 9. August 1945. Der Maßstab ist aufgrund der Erdkrümmung nicht einheitlich. Winkel und Standorte sind ungefähre Angaben. Kokura wurde mit einbezogen, weil es das ursprüngliche Ziel für den 9.
At 03:47 Tinian time (GMT+10), 02:47 Japanese time, [127] on the morning of 9 August 1945, Bockscar, flown by Sweeney's crew, lifted off from Tinian island with the Fat Man, with Kokura as the primary target and Nagasaki the secondary target. The mission plan for the second attack was nearly identical to that of the Hiroshima mission, with two ...
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m. (Hiroshima time), the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, flown by Paul Tibbets (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007), dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, [26] directly killing at least 70,000 people, including thousands of Korean slave laborers.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Kōen) is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan.It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims (of whom there may have been as many as 140,000).
The view toward the east from Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry . The white building in the center is the main office of Geibi Bank, and the building on the right is the Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank. Photograph by U.S. armed forces on November 20, 1945 The stone in exhibition in Hiroshima Peace Museum
A Blank in the Weather Map (空白の天気図, Kuhaku-no Tenki-zu) is a non-fiction book written by Japanese author Kunio Yanagida and published in Japan in 1975. The book is about the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory in 1945. Hiroshima was fully destroyed in the Atomic Bombing on August 6, 1945.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (広島平和記念碑, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinenhi), originally the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, and now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome (原爆ドーム, Genbaku Dōmu), is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
1929 - Hiroshima University of Literature and Science established. [3] 1945 August 6: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima by US forces. [9] Population: 137,197. [10] 1947 Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony begins. [citation needed] Shinzo Hamai becomes mayor. 1949 - Hiroshima University [3] and Hiroshima Stock Exchange [5] established. 1950