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I would like to be on a particular B-29 belonging to the 509th Composite Bomb Group. It would be a little after 8 am local time on August 6th, 1945. I would be Paul Tibbetts bombardier looking through the bomb sight finger on the trigger to drop the Big One.
Yes amazingly, I myself would have liked to have witnessed it
Which in a way is all the more shocking, really when you consider it in a way
is one of the biggest acts of evil mankind has ever inflicted in a single act.
Just thinking how many men, women and children died in a instant can give one shivers.
I not Arguing For or Against the act, just bringing up some thoughts..
Still again, I would have liked to have been there
Yes amazingly, I myself would have liked to have witnessed it
Which in a way is all the more shocking, really when you consider it in a way
is one of the biggest acts of evil mankind has ever inflicted in a single act.
Just thinking how many men, women and children died in a instant can give one shivers.
I not Arguing For or Against the act, just bringing up some thoughts..
Still again, I would have liked to have been there
Actually, I don't consider the Atomic attacks as evil along with the fire bombings of Tokyo, Dresden, Hamburg or London. They are not evil in the same sense as Auschwitz, the Battan Death March ,or the Rape of Nanjing. The use of those bombs showed the horrible consequences of using such weapons and established an extremely high threshold for their use which even in a world with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons many 10 or more times as powerful as those first bombs has not been crossed. Nuclear weapons are not the same as any other weapon. Harry Truman once thanked God for giving us the the chance to use Nuclear weapons on our enemy. I thank God for giving us the humanity to not to use nuclear weapons in the years since 1945.
Harry Truman once thanked God for giving us the the chance to use Nuclear weapons on our enemy. I thank God for giving us the humanity to not to use nuclear weapons in the years since 1945.
My dad often thanked Harry Truman for using those weapons. It kept him from being sent to the South Pacific after he recovered from the wounds he received in France.
Oh, and in Dad's honor I'd fly a Mustang. He loved those planes!
Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk.Good agility at high speed. Was one of the fastest aeroplanes with propellers in a dive.Also one of the tightest turning monoplane fighters of the war although at lower speeds could not outurn a Zero.
The ME-262 was the best plane that actually got into combat.
Good airframe, bad engines. It flew surprisingly well on a single engine, too. I believe the Me262 was the best jet until the F86 came along (which used a lot of the data we studied from the Me262).
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