B-24 parts found in Hiroshima

David_Aiken · **Joined:** Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:31 pm **Posts:** 403

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

Robbie Roberts · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:51 am

That translation to read hurt readable not really.

Robbie

Second Air Force · **Posted:** 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

Django · **Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:47 am

So there is a piece of the plane 4 meters in length that survived?

Second Air Force · **Posted:** 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?

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