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The only problems experienced in dropping atomic bombs during WW2 was the orders required visual bombing using the Norden bombsight and on the August 9, 1945 attack both the primary (Kokura) and secondary (Nagasaki) targets had heavy cloud cover. The planes spent a lot of time over the primary trying to find an opening in the clouds using lots of fuel before giving up and proceeding to the secondary target. At the secondary the same thing happened, but an opening was eventually found and the bomb dropped. However by this time there was not enough fuel left to return to Tinian, or the emergency landing field at Iwo Jima, so it landed on Okinawa just barely before running out of fuel.

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