On August 6, 1945, a plane called the Enola gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of HIROSHIMA. Instantly eliminating 70,000 Japanese citizens. building gone in a flash. In the months and years that followed, an additional 100,000 perished from burns and radiation sickness.
(click on this link to hear an interview from Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/videos/paul-tibbets-on-dropping-the-atomic-bomb)
This map shows the range of the destruction caused by the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Exploding directly over a city of 320,000, the bomb vaporized over 70,000 people instantly and caused fires over two miles away.
Two days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese people perished.
On August 14, 1945, the Japanese surrendered.
(click on this link to hear an interview from Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/videos/paul-tibbets-on-dropping-the-atomic-bomb)
This map shows the range of the destruction caused by the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Exploding directly over a city of 320,000, the bomb vaporized over 70,000 people instantly and caused fires over two miles away.
Two days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese people perished.
On August 14, 1945, the Japanese surrendered.
On August 6, the city of Hiroshima, Japan remembers those who lost their lives
when the atomic bomb fell. Thousands attend the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Ceremony annually. (ushistory.org)
when the atomic bomb fell. Thousands attend the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Ceremony annually. (ushistory.org)