Diary August 6, 1945

War Diary, 08-1945, Diary WW2, Year 1945 / 1 minute of reading / By Kretaner

The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. Unlike the inhabitants of other Japanese cities, the Americans have not warned there of an attack and so the atomic age begins with the death of 100,000 people.

Diary for Monday, August 6, 1945:

Air War

Pacific – DESTRUCTION OF HIROSHIMA: B-29 Superfortress ‘Enola Gay‘ of 393rd Bomber Squadron, 509th Composite Group, 20th Air Force, commanded by Colonel Tibbets, drops 20-kilotonne atomic bomb (‘Little Boy‘) from altitude of 9,449 meters; device explodes 18 seconds after 8.16 am (local time) 564 m above city. 12 sq km of built-up area obliterated.

Home Fronts

USA: Major Richard I. Bong, top American fighter ‘ace’ of WW2 (40 victories), killed testing a P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter; aged 24.

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Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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