On Aug. 6, a crew loaded Little Boy onto the Enola Gay, a B-29 piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets. The plane made the 750-mile (1,200-kilometer) trip to Japan and dropped the bomb into the air above Hiroshima, where it detonated at exactly 8:12 a.m. On Aug. 9, the nearly 11,...
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Three days later, Major General Charles Sweeney dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Sweeney was well prepared, flying five rehearsal test drops as well as co-piloting the support and observation aircraft for the Hiroshima bombing. Nonetheless, Sweeney’s flight performance on August 9thhad none of the ...
Howmany people were killed by the two bombs dropped in Japan?A.Between105,000and 120,000people.B.Between35,000and 40,000people.C.Between70,000and 80,000people.D.Between140,000and 150,000people. 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 最佳答案A [数字计算题。根据最后一段中的“andkilled between ...
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In Japan the Nikkei was off 3.2% and has now dropped around 13% from a 27-year peak of 24,448.07 touched in early October. A broad indicator of shares in the region – the MSCI Asia Pacific index – has now fallen 20.3% from the year-to-date high set on 29 January, representing ...
Because during the early hours of Saturday, May 31, 1941, when people were tucked up in their beds, four German bombs were dropped on a neutral country. One 500lb bomb was particularly deadly -- it hit a gas pipe on the North Strand Road, killing 28 people, injuring -- sometimes hor...
The real threat posed by likes of Sheik Feiz makes my skin crawl, it never hits home until you know someone that has fallen under their vengeful hate and mad preaching, my jaw dropped to the floor when I read their names, and i will repeat what others always say, “they were ...
" One said, "T.J. took it to Sears to be fixed." Now I was really upset, so I ran down the stairs to go to Sears. I got outside and saw great destruction. I was under a freeway bridge...sort of place...and someone had dropped a bomb on it and there was a huge hole ...
On Aug. 6, a crew loaded Little Boy onto the Enola Gay, a B-29 piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets. The plane made the 750-mile (1,200-kilometer) trip to Japan and dropped the bomb into the air above Hiroshima, where it detonated at exactly 8:12 a.m. On Aug. 9, the nearly 11,...