Unedited footage of the bombing of Nagasaki

[never_retreat]

This is pretty cool.
<url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9v5sW6t0zI#t=604</url>

[geronimotwo]

good footage.  hope we never have to use one of those again.  did you notice at 10:10 the cloud took on a resemblance to fistful's avatar?

[RoadKingLarry]

Dropping that thing and killing 70,000+ people instantly had to weigh on the mind of the pilot and crew.

 I did note that the guys doing the paint work were not wearing any kind of PPE.

[Scout26]

I don't think they had any idea how many people were killed at that moment.   Those guys were all veteran pilots who had been in the service since before the war began.

They were very willing to do anything to end it.

[Chuck Dye]

As a nineteen year old in 1970, I spent most of a day in Nagasaki, alone, wandering the site and museum.  It was a tough day.

The bombing of Hiroshima has never much bothered me.  I have always wondered whether the follow up at Nagasaki was needed or justified.

[HankB]

. . . I have always wondered whether the follow up at Nagasaki was needed or justified.

Note that the Japs didn't surrender after 1 bomb, they didn't surrender after the USSR declared war, they only surrendered after the SECOND bomb was dropped, and even then, it took direct action by their emperor who ORDERED a surrender.

And . . . parts of the Jap military seriously contemplated the unthinkable - deposing their emperor in order to keep fighting. Their plot might have succeeded except that another conventional bombing attack - sometimes called The Last Raid - disrupted their plans. (IIRC, there was a documentary made on this last raid - maybe on The History Channel?)

[Mannlicher]

As a nineteen year old in 1970, I spent most of a day in Nagasaki, alone, wandering the site and museum.  It was a tough day.

The bombing of Hiroshima has never much bothered me.  I have always wondered whether the follow up at Nagasaki was needed or justified.

well, the Japanese were still not surrendering after Hiroshima..............  Some times you have to slap folks twice.  I always keep in mind, that the Japanese started the war, and forced it upon us.  That they got harmed in the process, is their own fault.

[AJ Dual]

Had I been there I'd have lobbied hard to name the plane "Gone Fission..

[Scout26]

Reading an interesting book entitled Operation Snow about how the Soviet Agents in FDR's administration manipulated events per their Soviet handler's requests to instigate a war between Japan and the US because Stalin feared a two front war.