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4 days ago · On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 80,000 people instantly. The American people learned about the new weapon from a White House press release (Document D). Three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki that killed 35,000 people.
1 day ago · Japan built the Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi for kamikaze attacks with cheap materials and massive bombs. The Tsurugi was intended to be a single-use disposable aircraft and was unarmed, easy target. Kamikaze attacks were a last-ditch effort as Japan faced defeat, with only one known surviving Tsurugi. What aircraft did Japan use in suicide kamikaze ...
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1 day ago · By the end of the war, Japan was in a hopeless position and was unable to defend itself from unrelenting waves of devastating B-29 Superfortress bomber raids that were leveling its cities. Desperate to stave off the inevitable American island-hopping march to the Japanese home islands, the Japanese resorted to kamikaze attacks.
1 day ago · Substantial debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 at the close of World War II (1939–45). On 26 July 1945 at the Potsdam Conference, United States President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President of China ...
1 hour ago · SASEBO, Nagasaki -- A large air-raid shelter was excavated by elementary school students in this southwest Japan city during the dying days of World War II. Almost 80 years after the war, 91-year ...
4 days ago · For a Western power, occupying Japan at the end of the Second World War was never going to be easy. Having weathered the storm of Western imperialism in the late 19th century and trounced the Russian Empire in 1905, the country took on the task of creating ‘Asia for the Asians’ in the 1930s.
4 days ago · On August 6, 1945, just days after the Potsdam Conference ended, the U.S. bomber Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb known as “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Despite its devastating effects, Japan didn't offer unconditional surrender right away, as the United States had hoped.
