An illustrated guide to the Atomic Bombs By Ryan Crierie

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An illustrated guide to the Atomic Bombs By Ryan Crierie

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this small bomb created that mess on Hiroshima!!




DECLASSIFIED PHOTOS - "B-29 "Enola Gay"
Forest Arden was the chief flight mechanic of a B-29 stationed at Tinian Island. His aircraft was parked nearby to the Enola Gay and he watched the loading procedure of the first Atomic Bomb. He said that security was strictly enforced and no one was allowed to approach to within 100 yards! Few had any inkling of what about to occur. Everyone was astounded at the sudden end of World War II.

This is an unbelievable set of photos - the REAL thing - pix from Tinian Island as the B-29 "Enola Gay" was being loaded.
Notice the "Top Secret" stamp on some of the photos. In the last few pix notice the CRUDE sheet metal work on the casing and fins of "Little Boy" - the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
http://www.alternatewars.com/Bomb_Loadi ... _Guide.htm
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Thanks for this!!
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That's an extraordinary set of pictures, I might have seen one or two but not this many. Thx.
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Great photos!
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Thanks radic202. Fat Man looks a little like a comedy bomb from road runner cartoons or such like - I'm surprised it hasn't got 'Acme Bomb Corp' written on the side [:D]
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Thanks radic202. Fat Man looks a little like a comedy bomb from road runner cartoons or such like - I'm surprised it hasn't got 'Acme Bomb Corp' written on the side [:D]

Not that I want to laugh at "nuclear bombs" but that was real funny! I can just imagine Willie Coyote having one of those drop on his head as the Road Runner "beep beeps" him!!!
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Awesome little guide! Thanks for sharing. [:)]

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That is neat stuff. Interesting how different the two devices were.
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And I suspect that no one in the photos assembling and loading these bombs had any concept of how much destructive power they were working with...

Thanks for sharing these... very unique and I've never seen any of them before.
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I remain amused whenever this link shows up in sites I frequent.

FYI; these were found in the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) Files at NARA II in College Park, MD.

The photos are medium resolution scale downs of 300+ DPI scans; and I only scanned in maybe about 30-40% of the photos; because many of them were kind of uninteresting; or simple repeats -- e.g. the Enola Gay moves 5 feet closer to the bomb pit.
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