Less than a month later, the first atomic bomb was tested successfully in New Mexico.īelieving the Japanese should have one last chance to avoid the use of the atomic bomb, Truman issued an ultimatum: surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' The Japanese ignored the demand. Douglas MacArthur said it could take 10 years and at least 1 million soldiers' lives to wipe out resistance.
On June 18, 1945, President Harry Truman approved military plans for the invasion of Japan. DidCal Poly recently design an airplane that can carry passengers Yes-true. It was the first atomic-bomb attack in history and destroyed the city. 'My job, in brief, was to wage atomic war,' he wrote in his 1989 book, 'Flight of the Enola Gay.' On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets was summoned to a secret military conclave in Colorado, where he was told that he had been selected to head the 509th Composite Group. The Junkers Ju52 was a 17-passenger commercial plane that debuted in 1932. He later led bombing runs in North Africa. If youre near the Enola Gay, turn so that youre facing the Space Hangar. bombing raids over German-held targets in Western Europe. into World War II, Tibbets was flying some of the first U.S. By summer 1942, nine months after the Pearl Harbor attack pulled the U.S. Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, didnt regret the fact that he dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during an interview.
