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In the foreground is the capsized minelayler USS Oglala (CM-4), with the light cruiser USS Helena (CL-50) further down the pier, at left. Beyond Helena is Drydock No.1, with USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the burning destroyers USS Cassin (DD-372) and USS Downes (DD-375).
The resulting explosion released the equivalent energy of 21 ± 2 kt (87.9 ± 8.4 TJ). [139] Big Stink spotted the explosion from 160 kilometers (100 mi) away, and flew over to observe. [209] The bomb destroyed the Roman Catholic Urakami Tenshudo Church. Bockscar flew on to Okinawa, arriving with only sufficient fuel for a single approach ...
USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts , she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928, was renamed after the Oglala , a sub-tribe of the Lakota , residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota .
Oglala (minelayer): damaged by torpedo hit on Helena, capsized; returned to service (as engine-repair ship) February 1944. Vestal (repair ship): hit by two bombs, blast and fire from Arizona, beached; returned to service by August 1942. Curtiss (seaplane tender): hit by one bomb, one crashed Japanese aircraft; returned to service January 1942 ...
The first target of nuclear weapons, the Mark I atomic bomb. The target was the Aioi Bridge across the Ōta River ; it exploded several hundred yards off. Hiroshima was a city of 250,000, suffering 70,000 or so deaths immediately and up to 126,000 by the end of the year.
Related: Iconic photos from WWII: Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon to be deployed in combat after the US dropped a 5-ton atomic bomb, called " Little Boy ," on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Yoshito Matsushige (松重 美人, Matsushige Yoshito, January 2, 1913 – January 16, 2005) was a Japanese photojournalist who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and took five photographs on the day of the bombing in Hiroshima, the only photographs taken that day within Hiroshima that are known.