August 6,1945,
B-29......
Enola Gay.....
the island of Tinian
headed north by northwest.....
on the deltas.....
Honshu Island
.....civilian population of 300,000 and
....43,000 soldiers.
Little Boy, The bomber,509th...Colonel Paul Tibbets, ....31,000
8: 15 a.m. Hiroshima
released 'Little Boy, '
9,700-pound uranium bomb,
over the city. Tibbets dove away
avoid the anticipated shock wave.
Forty-three seconds later,
a huge explosion
lit the morning sky
Japanese Second Army
were doing calisthenics.
'The city was hidden
by that awful cloud...
boiling up,
mushrooming,
terrible and
incredibly tall, ' Tibbets recalled.
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