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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.

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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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    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 Japanicon.

    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.
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    Japaneseicon called it ~ PIKADON Light then Thunder
    As far as Germanyicon's effort lucky for us in the raid on Arakan which was done to destroy Hitlers quest to build a A-Bomb (a heavy water plant) stopped them as he would have used them quite freely and consider this they trialed launching of rocket weaponry from U-boats quite successfully in WWII.
    Also they the Germans invented the first printed circuit well before the Japanese cottoned on (Incorporated in the make up of the aerial mine "George" source Ivan Southal's Softly Tread The Brave) so lets thank our lucky stars we got there first.
    But I had read somewhere there was a plot not to let the project happen due to certain erroneous calculations by certain German scientists in the building of it sorta maybe just not right!

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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 Japanicon 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 UKicon 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 Australianicon 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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