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Declassified B-29 Photos at Tinian
I apologize if these were posted previously, I couldn't find them when I searched.
http://www.alternatewars.com/Bomb_Lo...Bomb_Guide.htm
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Fantastic photos !
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The signature at 1 oclock H.P LEMAY well wonder if he is a long lost relly as he shares or I share the same name just like old Iron Arse Curtis E Le May
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Amazing photos....... Sealed with putty and mastic too. But it worked - big time!
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Absolutely fascinating.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Can you just imagine if it had not detonated and they had a chance to look at it. (in much the same way as the Germans had a chance to look at a beached Bouncing Bomb incidentally.....) They'd be looking at those rivets, paint and mastic stuff and messages thinking to themselves '.........what's this old stuff they're trying to bomb us into submission with.....' Pass the spanner while I take a closer look inside.......
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Can you just imagine if it had not detonated and they had a chance to look at it. (in much the same way as the Germans had a chance to look at a beached Bouncing Bomb incidentally.....) They'd be looking at those rivets, paint and mastic stuff and messages thinking to themselves '.........what's this old stuff they're trying to bomb us into submission with.....' Pass the spanner while I take a closer look inside.......
If that had happened, we likely would have never experienced the Sony Walkman, as radiation poisoning probably would have killed both of the founders of Sony (Masaru Ibuka & Akio Morita) who met while working in the IJN Navy's Wartime Research Committee.
I saw an interview with one of them many years ago (early to mid 80's), and in 1944-45 both of them were on a task force developing a heat-seeking missile to attack the streams of B29 bombers leveling Japan.
To me it seems reasonable that they (one an engineer and the other a physicist) would have been tasked to reverse engineer and examine the strange object.
Last edited by Lee Enfield; 02-12-2015 at 11:02 AM.
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Here’s a look inside the cockpit of the B-29 “BOCKSCAR”.
http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/med...20Station.html
It dropped four Pumpkin bombs on Japan and a Fat Man plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
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Is that the actual bockscar aeroplane Vince? There's a bit of outrage in the UK national newspapers here today caused by the Archbishop of somewhere apologising for the bombing of Dresden. A former RAF navigator on the raid was interviewed on the news a few nights before and was asked whether he had any regrets about the effects it had. He must have had some Australian blood in him or worked with an Australian crew because he answered with few droll words. They were '.......No, none at all. They shouldn't have started it........'
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