Tokyo to Nagoya. Tokyo to Yokosuka. Tokyo to Seoul. Tokyo to Saitama. Tokyo to Shanghai. Tokyo to Matsumoto. Tokyo to Shizuoka. Tokyo to Okinawa. Tokyo to Miyazaki.
Tokyo to Hiroshima. Tokyo to Mitaka. Tokyo to Sendai. Tokyo to Karuizawa. Tokyo to Naoshima. Tokyo to Niigata. Tokyo to Nagano.
Tokyo to Hanoi. Tokyo to Niseko. Tokyo to Hakone. Tokyo to Kamakura. Tokyo to Sapporo. Tokyo to Kanazawa. Tokyo to Taipei. Tokyo to Kyoto. Tokyo to Singapore. Tokyo to Osaka. Tokyo to Bangkok. Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City. Tokyo to Port Huron. On August 1st, , however, a number of high explosive bombs were dropped on the city. A few of these bombs hit in the shipyards and dock areas in the southwest portion of the city.
Several of the bombs hit the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works and six bombs landed at the Nagasaki Medical School and Hospital, with three direct hits on buildings there. While the damage from these few bombs were relatively small, it created considerable concern in Nagasaki and a number of people, principally school children, were evacuated to rural areas for safety, thus reducing the population in the city at the time of the atomic attack.
On the morning of August 9th, , at about A. When only two B superfortresses were sighted at the Japanese apparently assumed that the planes were only on reconnaissance and no further alarm was given. A few moments later, at o'clock, the observation B dropped instruments attached to three parachutes and at the other plane released the atomic bomb.
The bomb exploded high over the industrial valley of Nagasaki, almost midway between the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works, in the south, and the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works Torpedo Works , in the north, the two principal targets of the city. Despite its extreme importance, the first bombing mission on Hiroshima had been almost routine.
The second mission was not so uneventful. Again the crew was specially trained and selected; but bad weather introduced some momentous complications. These complications are best described in the brief account of the mission's weaponeer, Comdr.
Ashworth, U. His narrative runs as follows:. The weather forecast told us of storms all the way from the Marianas to the Empire. Our rendezvous was to be off the southeast coast of Kyushu, some miles away. There we were to join with our two companion observation B's that took off a few minutes behind us.
Skillful piloting and expert navigation brought us to the rendezvous without incident. The second, however, failed to arrive, having apparently been thrown off its course by storms during the night. Today these camphor trees are thriving with a thick canopy of healthy green leaves and tangled branches. Factors as mercurial as the weather—or where the U.
Secretary of War vacationed—shaped the destiny of Nagasaki and the people living there. Hiroshima's survivors struggle with memories of the nuclear attack.
Much like the camphor trees outside the Sanno Shrine, they have come back to life over the past 75 years to tell their stories of that day. Like the trees, the survivors are living examples of both the horrors of nuclear war and the power of resilience. All rights reserved. Twists of fate made Nagasaki a target 75 years ago The Japanese port was not the U. Two camphor trees guard the entrance to the Sanno Shinto Shrine roughly a half mile from where the atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki.
Heat and debris from the blast stripped the tree bare and split the trunks in two. Although considered dead at the time, within months new buds emerged from the scorched branches. Today the trees stand as living, natural monuments to the bombing. Hiroki Kobayashi is a Tokyo based photographer who concentrates on cultural issues and is a regular contributor to National Geographic. Share Tweet Email. Why it's so hard to treat pain in infants.
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