Target Nagasaki The Forgotten Story of Charles W Sweeney and Bockscar

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This video is sponsored by the City of Quincy. To discover more about Quincy, check out the link - https://discoverquincy.com/ • At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945, the citizens of the Japanese city of Hiroshima looked up to see three bright silver B-29 Superfortress bombers droning overhead. This was nothing unusual; for the past year the U.S. Twentieth Air Force had conducted round-the-clock firebombing raids of the Japanese home islands, reducing large swathes of Tokyo and other cities to ashes. But as the people of Hiroshima watched, one of the aircraft released not a string of tiny incendiaries, but a single, very large bomb. Twenty seconds later, a blinding flash brighter than the midday sun filled the air. A searing fireball enveloped the downtown core, vaporizing its inhabitants instantly, while all around the city buildings spontaneously burst into flames. Within hours, 13 square kilometres of the city lay in ruins, and 129,000 of its 348,000 citizens dead or wounded. And over this devastation rose a roiling, radioactive mushroom cloud. The age of atomic warfare had begun. • The story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the man who carried it out - Colonel Paul W. Tibbets - is well-known, and has been told and re-told in countless books, articles, and documentaries. Yet often overlooked, or at least covered to a much lesser degree outside of mentioning the name of the city, is the story of the second atomic bomb, dropped on the city of Nagasaki just three days later. Despite this, in many ways, this second mission was even more important than the first, often credited with convincing the Japanese to surrender and end the war. It was also far more dramatic, plagued with endless bad luck and hair-raising close calls. This is the forgotten story of Charles W. Sweeney and Bockscar, the man and machine that dropped the second - and so far last - atomic bomb in the history of warfare. • Author: Gilles Messier • Host: Daven Hiskey • Producer: Daven Hiskey • Image Sources: • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gu... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bo... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fa... • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NQ... • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

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