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On July 31, 1945, the Project Alberta team on Tinian, working with the 509th Composite Group, conducted a complete dress ...
Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and Doolittle as a lieutenant general also had a little-known role by ...
There are not many people that have survived a nuclear attack. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only person that officially survived ...
The Tri-Cities history is linked to the atomic bomb, after B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation, shown circa 1944-45, ...
DOWNEY — Downey’s Alex Caron is best known locally as a stand-up comedian. But there is a serious side to him too. Under the watchful eye of director Adrian Hernandez, Caron gives a memorable ...
One by one, participants solemnly rang a ceremonial gong at the Dayton International Peace Museum Tuesday night as they commemorated the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The following article was commissioned by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans in 2020 and was part of an ongoing series commemorating the 75th anniversary ...
This summer, the NJAHS resurrected an exhibit from 30 years ago to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Japan on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945.
Hiroshima, a Delhi panel questioned the bomb’s necessity, exposing its use as a power display, while reflecting on memory, ...
This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...
The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...