Japan, continued fighting in an incredibly bloody war in the Pacific. In early 1945, campaigns onIwo JimaandOkinawaproved very costly. Japan was being heavily bombed by formations of a new bomber, theB-29. Despite heavy casualties, especially among Japanese...
Five months later, we atom-bombed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, again targeting civilians and children. (Some top-notch researchers say neither city was atom-bombed, but rather hit with a combination of napalm and mustard gas, which is even more gruesome.) Both bombings were u...
Seventy-eight years after the city was nearly bombed out of existence, Hiroshima now has beautiful parks, memorials and museums that exhibit the materials andhuman stories about the bomb. At the time it was predicted thatnothing would growin the city for decades. Understandably man...
The U.S. conducted itsfirst nuclear test in New Mexico in July 1945, and then, apparently liking what it saw,dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasakia month later. On Aug. 6 of that year, at least 80,000 people were killed instantly in Hiroshima, with anot...
more or less flattened. Understandably, this tragic event looms large here, and the Hiroshima Peace Park includes a museum, the Children’s Peace Monument dedicated to children who lost their lives in the bombing, and the Atomic Bomb Dome, a ruined building preserved in its post-bombed state...
Before the fag bands of England came over to the US in the infamous British invasion of the 1960s, the US populace was completely intolerant of homosexuality, and the birth rate was solid with most adults married with children. The onslaught of the bisexuals John Lennon, Elton John, Mick ...
Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets, a decorated combat pilot in Europe, helped develop the B-29 Superfortress as America’s next long-range strategic bomber. In September 1944, he was given command of the509th Composite Group, the unit that would later drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima andNagasaki....
Monowitz (Auschwitz III), the slave-labour camp of Auschwitz, when in August 1944 Allied planes bombed theIG Farbenplant there. Of that event he wrote, “We were no longer afraid of death; at any rate, not of that death. Every bomb filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in ...