One Hundred Years Of Solitude
It was quite probably the most important event of World War II. Its consequences were greater than those of any other event of the war. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima and dropped the first atomic bomb through its hatches. The city went up in a fireball, causing destruction unlike anything the world had ever seen. The fact that it killed one hundred thousand people instantly made the atomic bomb known as an instrument of terrible destruction, the fact that it helped bring about the Japanese surrender and thus ended the Pacific war made the bomb an effective deterrent of war. Even now, after almost ...
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Einstein warned that the secret work with Uranium was going on in Nazi Germany. He urged that similar American research be accelerated. Roosevelt filled with fear that Nazi Germany would develop the bomb first, marked Einstein’s letter for action. Eleven days after President Roosevelt authorized the go-ahead for the Manhattan project, the Japanese, too, without American knowledge, entered the race to develop an atomic bomb.
As the research for the first atomic bomb started, the military began its own preparation to use the atomic bomb. On Tuesday, August 29, 1944, General Barney Giles, assistant Chief of Air staff, decided that a well-respected Lieutenant Colonel Paul Tibbet should be awarded the honor of flying the first atomic mission. General Ent formally assigned the 393rd Heavy Bombardment Squadron, based in Nebraska, to Colonel Tibbet. Its fifteen bomber crews would provide the world’s first atomic strike force capable of delivering nuclear bombs on Germany and Japan. ...
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A week before the end of their training in Nebraska, the men of 393rd had been proud that their squadron’s record was way above average. They had expected to go over seas soon, but instead the crew had been shuffled off to Wendover. There weren’t even any bombers at Wendover, just a few rundown planes. Furthermore, by breakfast time, MPs were every where, their motorcycles and jeeps sent scuds of dust into the air which the 393rd had never tasted before. (Thomas 24) It permeated their clothes, skin, and the food as well. However, despite the difficulties the crew members faced, they constantly were pleaded by their senior officers to at least give “the place a chance.” But ...
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