On August 8, Field Order No.17 issued from the 20th Air Force Headquarters on Guam called for its use the following day on either Kokura, the primary target, or Nagasaki, the secondary target. Three days after Hiroshima, the B-29 bomber, "Bockscar" piloted by Sweeney, reached the sky over Kokura on the morning of August 9 but abandoned the primary target because of smoke cover and changed course for Nagasaki.
Nagasaki was an industrialized city with a natural harbor in Western Kuushu, Japan. At 11:02 a.m., this bomb, known as the "Fat Man" bomb, exploded over the north factory district at 1,800 feet above the city to achieve maximum blast effect. Buildings collapsed. Electrical systems were shorted. A wave of secondary fires resulted, adding to their Holocaust.
Flash burns from primary heat waves caused most of the casualties to inhabitants. Others were burned when their homes burst into flame. Flying debris caused many injuries. A fire storm of winds followed the blast at Hiroshima as air was drawn back to the center of the burning area. Trees were uprooted. The bomb took the lives of 42,000 persons and injured 40,000 more. It destroyed 39 percent of all the buildings standing in Nagasaki. According to U.S. estimates, 40,000 people were killed or never found as a result of the second bomb.
The code names were
"Little Boy" on Hiroshima and
"Fat Man" on Nagasaki
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was known as "Little Boy".
The bomb dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later was significantly larger and was known as "Fat Boy.
Fat Man, dropped on Hiroshima; and Little Boy, dropped on Nagasaki.
The atomic weapons were code named Little Boy and Fat Man.
2 atomic bombs and 2 million HE bombs and 5 million incendiary fire bombs
The Two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Second World War.
The 2 cities in Japan on which the atomic bombs were dropped in World War II.
Dropped two atom bombs on Japan.
There were two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945: Little Boy (on Hiroshima) and Fat Man (on Nagasaki).
There were 2 atomic bombs, which were dropped onto Japan in 1945. They were called 'Fat Man' and 'little boy'.
2 atomic bombs and 2 million HE bombs and 5 million incendiary fire bombs
2
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Dropped two atom bombs on Japan.
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Nagasaki & heroshima
Dropped 2 atom bombs on Japan
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Japan
The first was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, and the second on Nagasaki, Japan, which effecively ended the war in l945.
The Two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Second World War.