From the May 26, 2016, Chicago Tribune, editorial.
This editorial appeared because of President Obama's visit to Hiroshima, Japan the next day.
"On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was a city of 350,000 well-braced for U.S. bombing raids. makeshift firelanes snaked through neighborhoods. Locals built concrete tanks alongside houses and filled them with water-- to extinguish fires but also to leap into as a lifesaving refuge,
"That morning, two or three B-29 bombers were spotted-- but no one ran for shelters-- big bombing raids (the ones where you would take shelter) almost always meant a sky filled with attacking bombers.
Then, at 8:14 a.m., "Little Boy" fell from the Enola Gay flying at 31,000 feet."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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