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: