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| carey, peter, del mar, sushi, poem, stars, tips, success, turntable cases, biography & autobiography, jon de vries, fiction general, bonnie bedelia, a bomb, | However, fate and the weather was to be Nagasaki's undoing. Whereas the 'Enola Gay' had had a relatively uneventful journey to her target at Hiroshima, the same was not true for the plane picked to drop oakridge the next atomic bomb - 'Bockscar'. Both 'Bockscar' and 'Enola Gay' were B29 Superfortress bombers. The crew of 'Bockscar' gathered for their takeoff at 03.40 hours, August 9th, at Tinian Island. The flight commander, Major Sweeney, found that one of the fuel pumps on the B29 oakridge was oakridge not working. 800 gallons of aviation fuel had to sit in its fuel tank - it could not be used for the engines but the plane had to carry its weight and get nothing in return from the fuel. 'Bockscar' carried an atomic bomb that differed from 'Little Boy' carried by 'Enola Gay' for the Hiroshima bombing. |
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| Nagasaki was not America's primary target. This was Kokura. The three potential targets for a second bomb were Kokura, Kyoto and Niigata. Nagasaki was only added to a list of carey, peter potential targets when Kyoto was withdrawn (it had been the secondary carey, peter target for a second bomb) because of its religious associations. The third potential carey, peter target was Niigata - but this was withdrawn from the list as the distance to it was considered to be too great. Therefore, the Americans were left with just two targets - Kokura and Nagasaki. Nagasaki was a major shipbuilding city and a large military port. But it was not a favoured target as it had been bombed five times in the previous twelve months and any damage caused by an atomic bomb would have been difficult to assess. Also, the way Nagasaki had grown as a port meant that the impact of a powerful bomb might be dissipated as the city had grown across hills and valleys. The city was also broken up with stretches of water. |
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