B-24 parts found in Hiroshima
Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:12 am
The B-24 crashed the day before the A-Bomb, ppart of crew captured. Parts removed from crash were recently(?) located as told today:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... l=ja&tl=en
http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... l=ja&tl=en
Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:51 am
That translation to read hurt readable not really.
Robbie
Robbie
Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:59 am
Interesting information, David.
The survivors of this B-24 were interred in Hiroshima and lost with a number of other POWs when the Little Boy detonated. I have read an account of this shoot-down and aftermath in one of the many Manhattan Project volumes I've read, I forget which. I think it is in John Hersey's "Hiroshima", and has a viewpoint from one of Hiroshima's anti-aircraft battery leaders, as well as some eye-witness accounts of the captured aviators being led to Hiroshima Castle and the POW compound on the grounds.
Scott
The survivors of this B-24 were interred in Hiroshima and lost with a number of other POWs when the Little Boy detonated. I have read an account of this shoot-down and aftermath in one of the many Manhattan Project volumes I've read, I forget which. I think it is in John Hersey's "Hiroshima", and has a viewpoint from one of Hiroshima's anti-aircraft battery leaders, as well as some eye-witness accounts of the captured aviators being led to Hiroshima Castle and the POW compound on the grounds.
Scott
Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:47 am
So there is a piece of the plane 4 meters in length that survived?
Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:24 pm
Django wrote:So there is a piece of the plane 4 meters in length that survived?
That's what I got from the translation Chad. Wing structure, maybe?