Diary August 9, 1945

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

The 6,000 m high mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, 3 minutes after the second atomic bomb was dropped.

Diary for Thursday, August 9, 1945:

Air War

Pacific: DESTRUCTION OF NAGASAKI. B-29 Superfortress ‘Bock’s Car‘ drops 20-kilotonne atomic bomb (‘Fat Man‘). Area of 4 sq km destroyed.

Atomic Bomb Losses
Hiroshima: perhaps 80,000 dead including 6,769 military personnel, c. 80,000 injured; radiation sickness still affects c. 4,000 survivors.
Nagasaki: c. 40,000 dead, c.60,000 injured.

Home Fronts

Britain: Death of Sir Bernard Partridge, political cartoonist of ‘Punch’ magazine; aged 83.

Russo-Japanese War

RUSSIANS INVADE MANCHUKUO (Manchuria) on 1,609 km front.

Manchurian Campaign:

	soldiers	tanks	guns	planes
Strength Russians	1,158,000 (76 divisions)	5,500	26,000	3,900
Strength Japanese	663,000 + 117,000 Manchukuo troops (25 divisions)	1,155	6,260	1,000
Losses Russians	8,219 KIA; 22,264 wounded
Losses Japanese	21,389 KIA; 594,000 PoWs

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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.

Air War

Home Fronts

Russo-Japanese War

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