To prevent the American fighters from getting into the air and intercepting the Japanese bombers. Also the American airfields were the earliest targets approached by the strike.
The airfields. The third strike was to take out the submarine pens, oil depots, and repair facilities; but the third strike was cancelled.
The Coalition was resolute in their decision to bomb Libya's airfields.
The first Japanese city to be attacked by a nuclear weapon is Hiroshima.
hiroshima
Hiroshima and then Nagasaki
HIROSHIMA
Hiroshima , then Nagasaki .
Bomb in Japanese is 爆弾 (bakudan).
Correction : the first atomic bomb , dropped on Hiroshima , was named "Little Boy".
"Little Boy".
The US needed the Japanese Airfields located on the island.It was basically half way between Hawaii and japan. it was controlled by japan and America wanted it so they could bomb the island of japan.
No.The first US atomic bomb test was Trinity and the bomb itself was Gadget.The first USSR atomic bomb test was First Light.The Japanese that survived created the word pikadon to describe the effect of the atomic bomb. In Japanese pika means brilliant light and don means boom, so pikadon means brilliant lightboom. Sometimes this is translated into English as flash boom, but this does not really capture the meaning in the Japanese word. But this might be where you got the word thunderlight, however its not the same.