I know that the USS Indianapolis carried the components for the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb and successfilly delivered them to Tinian on 26 July 1945. Rumor has it were there components for another ...
Many people claim somehow that using the atomic bomb against Japan was 'immoral'. They claim the war could have been won using 'conventional' methods instead. I'm curious as to what the reasoning ...
What were the pros and cons of the U.S. dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II? Pro: Dropping the bomb ended the war a lot faster. Had operation Olympic ...
Let me start by stating that I am strongly opposed to what Nazism stands for and that the atrocities committed under their reign still shock me when I'm confronted with them, but what Mr Green wrote ...
Can anybody help me in regards to books that delve with the pros and cons of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. What is the consensus in here, should we have or did we make a mistake?
I believe you are thinking of the two H8K2 'Emily' flying boats which bombed Oahu the night of March 4/5 1942. Their lack of results was caused by cloud cover obscuring the target area rather than ...
A researcher, Carter Hydrick, has 'announced finding that the American atomic bomb program used components developed by Nazi Germany, including enriched uranium, to fabricate at least one of the ...
Education about history is important. I would like to know how are you tought about atomic bomb in your country. Maybe different countries teach different way. Especially I'm interested in American ...
Hi there, Is it true that Britain started an atomic bomb programme before the start of World War II ? If so, could Britain have developed it on its own ? (assuming a slow, incremental process rather ...
Can you give me a source please? I assume you are referring to Dresden. On Jan 27, 1945, cities were again given a higher priority. The new operation, codenamed THUNDERCLAP, was intended to support a ...
I'm looking for any one who knows where I may find a history of the 15th Bomb. Sqaurdron. I've been able to locate information about them when they were in England in 1942. I know they were ...
I was wondering if there was someone out there who could help me with this question. I know the US and the UK were very concerned about a possible communist takeover in Greece, and supplied a great ...
Sir, what _exactly_did Bomber Command due to suddenly escalate to Hamburg in 1943????????? You keep making this claim. I am still challenging you to back it up with what *EXACTLTY* Bomber Command to ...
it sure as hell scared the USA. Do you know the Purple Hearts given out today were made in anticipation of the USA invading mainland Japan? When the president reviewed expected causalities in such an ...
Would a "Rifleman 745" have been assigned to a bomb squadron in the Army Air Force during WWII? My father had that MOS and I had always believed that he served in the Infantry with Army Ground ...
... number of victories over enemy planes that they are credited with. Bomber crews did the same, plus bomb symbols (was each bomb a hit on a target, a ...
No your clearly retarded..did you think the maori went to war with wood and stone clubs during WW2? If you people bother to research the Maori often utilized the weapons of the enemy against ...
'Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor' by R G Smith A common description of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941 is that it 'destroyed' the US Navy's Pacific Fleet moored there. The ...
Rommel was active in the plot. At least as much as people as Beck or Kluge were. They all knew it was going to happen, they all accepted that it was going to happen, and they'd all have accepted ...
> Victory for Germany. Yes it could have been done had the Germans made a solid commitment to taking the Island. As it was, the invasion of Russia took priority. All of the naysay
Victorious allies attempted to pick over German munitions technology fairly thoroughly after VE Day, cf. seizure of V2 rockets and scientific staff for postwar examination in Britain and the USA. An ...
Roxanne, I believe the secret to this mystery lies in the book, titled "For whom the whistle blows 546. I believe it is the forth scan down. Looks like the introduction to the book. It is very blurry ...
the >war for his acts) As far as I know, there was a line of defence through the middle of France and many units were transported from Dunkirk and the Belgian beaches of La Panne (only a few miles ...
for the OP: Hitler died at Berlin as the official sources say. Soviet forensic evidence collected near the Führerbunker after it's capture was plenty to confirm it. Circunstancial evidence is plain ...
Finnish military language has inherited many words from German - either translated or adapted for Finnish language. Original 'mortar' ('mF6rssE4ri' in Finnish, 'mF6rser'? in German) tended to ...
... estroyed while providing support in a missions that involved a ground offensive. Similarly, for any bomber, the tally marks are indicative of all the destruction caused on ground by the dropping of ...
Hedy Lamarr and torpedo technology are not things we ordinarily associate with one another. In spite of this, they are, in fact, interconnected. The famous actress and sex symbol had a deep ...
Actually in a sense it was just another bomb. The destruction of Tokyo and Dresden with conventional firebombing was comparable to that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The difference was in numbers. In ...
... resting and mysterious event for the war history fans. Here is a brief account:Lady Be GoodIt was a bomber plane in the USAF during World War II, and its model number was B-24D Liberator with the ...
... nd if I ask a question of you Art. I Don't know if you would know the answer or not. You know those bombs that skipped off the water, that were used to attack the Roer dams? Could any bomb do that? ...