The Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs, averaging about 27,700 tons of bombs each month. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. A B29 Superfortress bomber, called the ‘Enola Gay’ dropped the bomb. On August 9, 1945, another atomic bomb...
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The human cost of the war can hardly be calculated. Civilian population centres were intentionally targeted by both theAxisand theAllies. Planes of theU.S. Army Air Forcesburned scores of Japanese cities to the ground withincendiarybombsbeforeHiroshimaandNagasakiwere largelydestroyed with atomic weapon...