What Happened at Hiroshima-- Part 1: Not What Expected

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