The Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy", to be used in war, by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945, just before the end of World War II. Because of the bo...
It's definitely a thing. They put on gas masks, and a group of soldiers walks into a small room. Once they are inside, the drill sergeant does whatever they do to fill the room with a non-toxic, but incredibly irritating gas. And then the soldier must remove the masks and stay in ...
We had rationing into the mid-50s; it was very hard to travel abroad because of currency regulations, very little variety of food was available – there were so many things we didn't have in this country." Carey Mulligan who stars as suburban schoolgirl Jenny recognises that the journey of...
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My family in 1913, around the time of the story. My father is on the right, the little boy in the chair. My father was also an accomplished storyteller endowed with a prodigious memory. He was born in 1909 in Salonica, then a part of the Ottoman Empire, now Greece, and would some...
It was a neat visit, complete with a fountain that looked like a little boy playing with, well, what little boys might play with, but suddenly the realization we had to walk another 3/4 plus mile back to the hotel came upon us. Being older folks, the thought of using the scooters fr...
Director Guillermo Del Toro’s third film, following the disastrous experience of making Mimic for Miramax, marks a return to his native Spanish language in this tale of a boy living in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. Del Toro has referred to this film as a companion piece to hi...
1 Last month, pictures of a bloody, wounded 5-year-old Syrian boy in an ambulance caught the world’sattention. The boy, whose name was Omran Daqneesh, had suffered head injuries when a bomb hit his family’sapartment building in Aleppo. This week, another little boy has attracted the w...
SYRIANA and INSIDE MAN. His TV appearances, which number close to 100, include the Emmy-winning BBC Hamlet at Elsinore playing the title role; the Emmy-winning productions The Thornbirds, Nuremberg, Little Moon of Alban and HBO’s Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight earning him seven Emmy nominatio...
Perhaps the most famous B-29 is the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Bockscar, another B-29, dropped 'Fat Man' on Nagasaki three days later. These two actions, along with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 9 August 1945, brought ...