who was the pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb in japan in wwII?
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Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets
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Hiroshima \nD Day\nWorld War 1 \nMoon Landing \nSeptember 11th
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I'd reccomend using a B-17 "Flying Fortress", it's kind of the quintessential WWII bomber.  Wikipedia has some pictures, but if you just do an internet search for B-17, it shouldn't be too hard to find some better ones.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17
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Chuck Norris ended world war 2... He farted in a can and threw  it at Japan!
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Kokura\nhttp://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/CG/CG_09C.htm\n\n"8/3/45 - General Groves sent 'Special Bombing Mission #13' designating Hiroshima as the target.  The secondary target is Kokura."\n\nhttp://www.vce.com/hironaga.html\n\n"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."\n\nKokura is in southwest Japan, as shown on this map.\nhttp://www.kyutech.ac.jp/english/tobata/access.html
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Hiroshima:\nColonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. piloted Enola Gay (named after his mother).\n\nNagasaki:\nMajor Charles W. Sweeney piloted Bocks Car.
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, planes and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a surprise attack on the US under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. This attack brought the United States into World War II. At 6:00 a.m. on December 7th the six Japanese carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes composed of torpedo bombers, dive-bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters. The Japanese hit American ships and military installations at 7:53 a.m.. They attacked military airfields at the same time they hit the fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. Overall, twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific fleet were damaged and the death toll reached 2,400.
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The name that you should have been looking for was Lt Preston Niland.  Sgt Fritz Niland was in the 101st.  He dropped into Raffoville near Carentan.  He had three brothers.  Tech Sgt Robert Niland was in the 82nd.  Lt Preston Niland was in the 4th ID and Tech Sgt Edward Niland was a pilot in the Army Air Corps. Edward was reported missing over Burma in May 1944.  Robert was killed at Neuville-au-Plain on D-Day and Preston died on June 7 near Utah Beach.  Fritz Niland was soon sent back to the States and served out the war as an MP.  It did not take a patrol of Rangers to extract him from the battlezone.
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He was the Emperor of Japan during WWII. He surrendered to Harry Truman after Truman dropped the bombs on Japan. That's what he did.
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Enola Gay, and Little Boy was the name of the bomb itself.\n\n"Little Boy was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It exploded approximately 1,800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of August 6, 1945, with a force equal to 13,000 tons of TNT. Immediate deaths were between 70,000 to 130,000.\n\nLittle Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets. Tibbets had named the plane Enola Gay after his mother the night before the atomic attack."
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Fruit pie the Magican....actaully her plane went down I believe over the Ocean.
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The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan were on cities with no significant military targets. I had family on both sides of WWII and lost family on both sides. Dropping the atomic bombs took a lot of consideration from the government back then and decided that it was the only option they had to avoid large scale death invading, both to the US and to Japanese civilians. If it had to be done, then I agree with you, why not a legitimate target? Pearl Harbor was a military target attack by "surprise". The Japanese officials who were to deliver the notice of war that morning were delayed in a US waiting room and were not able to deliver the notice prior to the attack. War history is written by the victors, so it was a surprise. To rally America into war, the President called it a surprise in his radio address. I ask any of you to take a trip to Hiroshima and visit the museum. My mother's family was on the other side of the mountain range from Nagasaki and that is what saved them, but they did witness the cloud, had some affect of the fire, and saw the destruction when they went to help. Japan's research at the time determined that the bomb was not possible with the technology available, so they did not believe the US's claim they had it. Japan was negotiating for surrender after the first but the US want unconditional, so dropped the second. I understand the decision to drop, just not the target.\n\nPaulHalloway-I do disagree with you on the legitemacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki being military targets. May 1945 the target committee listed Hiroshima as a class AA target using year old inteligence. The depot had been moved in Oct 1944. Nagasaki was never on the Target committee's list. The only other reason for Hiroshima to be targeted was the terrain and larger city. Mountains around Hiroshima would increase the affects of the blast and the size of the city  would allow that if the bomb was off target, would still cause mass distruction and casualties. It was also in the original plan recommendation to follow the bombing by an incendiary bombing of the city. Also the orders from Gen Spaatz on July 1945, identified the city as the target, not any military base, contrary to Truman's direction to Sec. of War Stimson.
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Hiroshima was the first Japanease city that was hit with an Atomic Bomb which ultimately led to the end of the War of course after we hit Nagasaki.  Even though those attacks are said to be brutal many agree that it saved millions of lives if we would have had to do a total land invasion of Japan.
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World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict that took place in 1939–1945. It was the largest and deadliest war in history, culminating in the Holocaust and the dropping of the atom bomb.
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It was the first Japanese city that the US a-bombed.
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On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the detonation of the "Fat Man" bomb over Nagasaki, Japan. The estimates of the combined death toll range from 100,000 to 220,000, with some estimates considerably higher when delayed deaths from radiation exposure are counted. More than 90% of the casualties were civilians.\n\nThe role of the bombings in Japan's surrender, as well as the effects and justification of them, have been subject to much debate. In the U.S., the prevailing view is that the bombings ended the war months sooner than would otherwise have been the case, saving many lives that would have been lost on both sides if the planned invasion of Japan had taken place[1]. In Japan, the general public tends to think that the bombings were needless as the preparation for the surrender was in progress in Tokyo[2].
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w 54 is small.\n\nseveral websites on this, for example:\n\nhttp://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/A-bomb/History/Damages.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb