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Enola Gay

Task

Was the flight of the Enola Gay a major historical event?

You can look at this question from different perspectives. For example form the perspective of the Japanese people, the American government or OMD. And probably you have your own perspectivel.

Choose two of these questions to answer:

Is the flight of the Enola Gay of great historical interest to OMD?
Was the flight of the Enola Gay of great historical interest to the U.S. government in 1945 ?
Was the flight of the Enola Gay of great historical interest to the people of Hiroshima?
Do you think this flight is of great historical interest?

Look at process for detailed instructions.

Kokura's luck

Three days after the attack on Hiroshima, on August 9, there was a second flight with an atomic bomb. That second bomb, called Fat Man, was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Actually, the target city was Kokura. But when the bomber Bockscar arrived over Kokura on August 9, 1945 , the city proved, however, overclouded. Because Major Charles Sweeney from Bockscar was briefed to bomb on sight, he choose the alternative target: Nagasaki.

Fat man

The first attack with a atomic bomb

The attack photographed from one of the B-29 Superfortresses involved in the attack