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Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928 - Captain Irving
Andre AquaRed 3.56K subscribers
Around Cape Horn 1928
All credit to Mystic Seaport videos for creating this wonderful film. They should have a dedicated utube channel for there films as we may be missing some classics.
A rare and wonderful part of history capturing a square-rigged ship in full motion.
This incredible film was made by Captain Irving Johnson in 1928, when he was but a swabby before the mast.QuoteIt would be impossible for the non-mariner to understand phenomena such as sailing into a Hurricane. For reference, I quote a passage from The American Practical Navigator – “As the center of the storm comes closer, the ever stronger winds shriek through the rigging, and about the superstructure of the vessel. As the center approaches, rain falls in torrents. The wind fury increases. The seas become mountainous. The tops of huge waves are blown off to mingle with rain and fill the air with water. Visibility is near zero in blinding rain and spray. Even the largest and most seaworthy vessels become virtually unmanageable, and may sustain heavy damage. Less sturdy vessels may not survive. Navigation stops as safety of the vessel becomes the only consideration. The awesome fury of this condition can only be experienced. Words are inadequate to describe it.” -- Captain John Loftus
AGelbert NOTE: As dangerous and deadly as the seas shown in the above video were, with Catastrophic Climate Change now upon us, the oceans will become practically impossible for modern ship hulls to withstand (learn more below).
Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART 1 of 3
Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: PART TWO
Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts
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WW2 Missions That Changed The War | Enola Gay, Doolittle, Flying Tigers | The Complete Documentaries
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Premiered Jul 9, 2022 Marathon Video.
Missions That Changed The War: Enola Gay, The Doolittle Raid and the Flying Tigers Missions in China.
Hear stories from the voices of the heroes and aces at the very center of the action. Narrated by Gary Sinise.
The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the destruction of about three quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target, Nagasaki, being bombed instead.
After the war, the Enola Gay returned to the United States, where it was operated from Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico. In May 1946, it was flown to Kwajalein for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in the Pacific, but was not chosen to make the test drop at Bikini Atoll. Later that year it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, and spent many years parked at air bases exposed to the weather and souvenir hunters, before being disassembled and transported to the Smithsonian's storage facility in Maryland, in 1961.
The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. Although the raid caused comparatively minor damage it demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attacks. It served as retaliation for the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and provided an important boost to American morale. The raid was planned by, led by, and named after Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle (later a Lieutenant General in the US Army Air Forces and the US Air Force Reserve).
Under the final plan, 16 B-25B Mitchell medium bombers, each with a crew of five, were launched from the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet, in the Pacific Ocean, off Japan. There was to be no fighter escort. After bombing military and industrial targets in Japan, the B-25 crews were to continue westward to land in China.QuoteTotal crew casualties: 3 KIA: 2 off the coast of China, 1 in China; 8 POW: 3 executed, 1 died in captivity, 4 repatriated.
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QuoteOnly 3 of the 16 crews failed to reach Chungking. Capt. Edwin J. York, who had led the third flight of planes into Tokyo, was desperately short of fuel and was forced to land near Vladivostok. He and his crew were interned by the Soviets in various locations for more than a year before they managed to “escape” into British- and Soviet-occupied Iran. Their “escape” was, in fact, an elaborate NKVD operation that had been staged to repatriate the Americans while giving the Soviets plausible deniability with the Japanese, with whom they were still nonbelligerent. Two crews were captured by Japanese forces in China after bailing out, one near the coast and one near Lake Poyang. The Chinese attempted to purchase the freedom of the captured air crews, but they were unsuccessful. Four of the raiders remained prisoners of the Japanese until the end of the war. One, Lieut. Robert J. Meder, died of dysentery in 1943. Three—Lieut. Dean Hallmark, Lieut. William Farrow, and Sgt. Harold Spatz—were executed by the Japanese in October 1942.
The raid on Japan killed about 50 people and injured 400, including civilians. Damage to Japanese military and industrial targets was minimal but the raid had major psychological effects. In the United States, it raised morale; in Japan, it raised fear and doubt about the ability of military leaders to defend the home islands, but the bombing and strafing of civilians also steeled Japanese resolve to gain retribution, and this was exploited for propaganda purposes.[4] It also pushed forward Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plans to attack Midway Island in the Central Pacific, an attack that turned into a decisive defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by the US Navy in the Battle of Midway. The consequences were most severely felt in China, where Japanese reprisals caused the deaths of 250,000 civilians and 70,000 soldiers.QuoteApril 19, 2019: The last surviving airman of the Doolittle Raid, Richard “Dick” Cole, died last week at the age of 103. He was Lt. Colonel James “Jimmy” Doolittle’s co-pilot.
The Flying Tigers:
In China’s most desperate hour, Chiang Kai-Shek turns to the United States for help. The Japanese are bombing Chinese population centers mercilessly. China’s decimated air force is powerless to stop them. Chiang dispatches his American consultant - former U.S. Army Air Corps officer Claire L. Chennault - to obtain the airplanes and pilots needed to defend China. Tex Hill resigns his Navy Commission and volunteers.
A small group of American aviators fought in their first battle in World War II.
Their mission was unusual: They were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan.
They were called the American Volunteer Group and later became known as the Flying Tigers. Though only in combat for less than seven months, the group became famous at the time for its ability to inflict outsize damage on Japan's better-equipped and larger aircraft fleet.
Their victories came when Japan seemed unstoppable. The AVG was a bright spot in history when everything was bleak and black, and they have received a lot of recognition for that.
In the West, 1939 is considered the start of World War II. But in Asia, China and Japan had been at war since 1937.
China was already fighting its own civil war between the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek and Communist forces. The two sides came to a truce to fight against the Japanese. China, however, had little air power to fend off Japanese bombings.
Enter Claire Lee Chennault, a U.S. Army aviator, instructor and tactician, once described by Time magazine as "lean, hard-bitten, taciturn." Health problems and disputes with his superiors pushed him into retirement from his position with the Army Air Corps in 1937, at age 43. -
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CC: Silent Wings - The American Glider Pilots of WW II
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From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany's final surrender, this acclaimed feature documentary, narrated by Hal Holbrook, reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives. Through rare archival footage and photographs, the film places the audience right at the center of the action in the dangerous world of American glider pilot.
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Directed by: Robert Child
Starring: Hal Holbrook
During WWII, 6000 young Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed cargo gliders into battle. For these glider pilots every mission was do-or-die. It was their task to repeatedly risk their lives landing the men and tools of war deep within enemy-held territory, often in complete darkness. Thousands of lives were saved and battles won because of their efforts. In fact, one pilot interviewed said - the 'G' in their emblem didn't stand for glider; it stood for 'guts.' Features include: - Virtual walk-through tour of the Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, Texas - Interview with Robert Child about the project and putting the film together. -
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The Man That Confronted A Dictator | Günther Rall's Incredible Story | Full Documentary
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2,213,044 views Premiered May 23, 2022 #ww2 #documentary #ace
You could say that history repeats itself. This wonderful documentary, filmed by our partners at Air2AirTV (air2airtv.com) is also masterfully narrated by Gary Sinise.
Günther Rall (10 March 1918 – 4 October 2009) was a highly decorated German military aviator, officer and General, whose military career spanned nearly forty years. Rall was the third most successful fighter pilot in aviation history, behind Gerhard Barkhorn, who is second, and Erich Hartmann, who is first.
Rall was born in Gaggenau, the German Empire, in March 1918. Rall grew up in the Weimar Republic. In 1933 the Nazi Party seized power and Rall, deciding upon a military career, joined the Wehrmacht in 1936 to train as an infantry soldier. Rall transferred to the Luftwaffe soon after and he qualified as a fighter pilot in 1938.
In September 1939 World War II began with the German invasion of Poland. Rall was assigned to Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52—52nd Fighter Wing) and flew combat patrols in the Phoney War period on the Western Front. Rall flew combat missions in the Battle of France and Battle of Britain, claiming one enemy aircraft destroyed in May 1940. Rall's wing sustained heavy casualties and the then-22 year old was appointed to Staffelkapitän (squadron leader). He then served in the Balkans Campaign in April and May 1941 without success.
In June 1941, JG 52 moved to the Eastern Front, where it remained from Operation Barbarossa until the end of the war. Rall claimed his first successes in the air defense of Romania. In November 1941, he was shot down, wounded and invalidated from flying for a year. At this time Rall had claimed 36 aerial victories. His achievements earned him the German Cross in Gold in December 1941.
Rall returned in August 1942 and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 3 September 1942 for 65 enemy aircraft shot down. By 22 October Rall had claimed 100 and received the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. He reached 200 in late August 1943. On 12 September 1943 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, the second highest military award in Nazi Germany at the time of the presentation. By the end of 1943 Rall had achieved over 250, the second flier to do so after Walter Nowotny did in October 1943.
In April 1944 Rall left JG 52 and the Eastern Front. He was given command of II. Gruppe (2nd group) of Jagdgeschwader 11 and served in the Defense of the Reich where he was wounded for a third time. In November 1944 Rall was appointed as an instructor and flew captured Allied fighter aircraft in order to prepare instruction notes on their performance to German fighter pilots. Rall ended the war with an unsuccessful stint commanding Jagdgeschwader 300 (JG 300—300th Fighter Wing) near Salzburg, Austria, where he surrendered in May 1945.
Rall remained in a prisoner of war camp for a matter of weeks. Rall was approached by the Americans who were recruiting Luftwaffe pilots who had experience with the Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter.[104] He was transferred to Bovingdon near Hemel Hempstead, and then based at RAF Tangmere, where he met the RAF fighter pilot Robert Stanford Tuck, with whom he became close friends.
After his release, Rall settled back into civilian life working for Siemens & Halske as a salesman from July 1947 to May 1948. In 1948 he visited England again. Rall accompanied Hertha Rall and stayed in Grosvenor Square with Dr Paul Kaspar and Jewish acquaintances, whom she had helped to escape from the Nazis. Rall knew of Hertha's wartime Jewish connections and was concerned it would attract the attention of Nazi authorities. In 1943, Hertha was suspected of Jewish sympathies by the Gestapo, but no action was taken.
Of Nazi ☠️ crimes, Rall acknowledged the pilots at the front knew of Nazi concentration camps but didn't know exactly what they were used for. When he first heard of Auschwitz and the Holocaust, initially he believed it to be propaganda. Rall could not believe that Germans would do such ☠️ things. The criminal nature of the
Nazi Party did not occur to Rall when Hitler came to power; "The fact that we did not explore the essence of the Nazi regime when it came to power is, of course, one of our great failings." 
During World War II Rall was credited with the destruction of 275 enemy aircraft in 621 combat missions. He was shot down five times and wounded on three occasions. Rall claimed all of his victories in a Messerschmitt Bf 109, though he also flew the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 operationally. All but three of his claims were against Soviet opposition.
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Battlefield - The ☠️ Battle 🥵 Of The Guadalcanal - Part 1
Documentary Base 293,831 views Premiered Apr 21, 2020 #WW2 #Battlefield
Battlefield - The Battle Of The Guadalcanal
For many years the 'Battlefield' series has led the way in World War II documentary programming, establishing itself as a firm favourite with generations of viewers from around the world.
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.Battlefield - The ☠️ Battle 🥵 Of The Guadalcanal - Part 2
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Battlefield - The ☠️ Battle 🥵 Of The Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
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Guadalcanal - The First Offensive Part 2
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Battle of the Bulge, Animated - Part 1, The Assault BeginsIn December 1944, the Allies have pushed back the Third Reich to it's own borders. The Fuhrer grows desperate for a decisive victory to defeat the western Allies so he can turn his full attention to the Eastern Front. He plans an ambitious dash through the Ardennes to take the city of Antwerp, trapping the British and Canadian armies in the Netherlands in a massive pocket, and forcing the western Allies to enter a peace settlement. Three German Panzer Armies are secretly assembled at a quiet sector of the front, and on the 16th December 1944, the panzers launch their assault.Battle of the Bulge, Animated - Part 2, Panzer AssaultBattle of the Bulge, Animated - Part 4, 💥 Bastogne
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The strategically important road junction of Bastogne is surrounded. The 101st Airborne, and elements of the 10th Armored Division and 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion must defend the town from attacks from all sides, to ensure that German armour and supply lines can't use the town to reach the frontlines. But soon, the weather will lift, and allied air power can help to turn the tide.
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, Animated - Part 6, Bodenplatte, the Final Ride of the Luftwaffe
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With the return of Allied Air Power to the skies above the failing German Ardennes offensive, the Fuhrer grows desperate. He rallies all available Luftwaffe units on the western front for one final assault against the Allied Air Forces. After being caught by surprise on the ground, the RAF, RCAF and USAAF respond, and devastate the attacking German aircraft.
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Wake Island: The Alamo Of The Pacific
Military Heroes 2.87K subscribers 80,250 views Dec 11, 2022
It's a story of survival on a desert island--and it helped change the course of WWII! Within hours of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, about 1,600 US marines and civilians found themselves under attack, in "Wake Island: The Alamo Of The Pacific."
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Our dear family friend Richard ⭐ was a civilian contractor on Wake when the Japanese Attacked. He chose to help the Marines and hauled munitions and helped move guns between attacks When captured, he and his people were tied up with wire by the Japanese. To terrorize them into submission, they were forced to watch the beheading of a comrade.
He was transported to Japan and under horrific conditions, worked in a coal mine as a slave. He was liberated in 1945, and I was privileged to meet him at my Bruce's wedding. He was quiet, strong and dignified. Foot note: most Japanese who committed war crimes against Asia and Allied forces were never brought to justice. The rest of Richards coworkers were taken to the far end of the island, and on the beach, hacked and bayoneted to ☠️ death 😱🥵. Never forget them Never
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The WORST unit in the ☠️ SS - the Oskar Dirlewanger Brigade
TIKhistory 268K subscribers 415,945 views Jun 6, 2022
☠️ Oskar Dirlewanger created an SS penal battalion known variously as SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, SS Sondereinheit Dirlewanger, the Dirlewanger Brigade, the ☠️ Black Hunters, or the 36th SS Grenadier Division. This unit was full of criminals who took part in numerous "anti-partisan" operations in Belarus, Slovakia, and Hungary. It also engaged the Polish Home Army and civilians at Warsaw. This is the history of the unit and its commander.
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AGelbert COMMENT: Hitler's "National Socialism" was REALLY National SOCIAL DARWINISM!
If you think the morally bankrupt ideology embraced by NAZI Germany has "gone away", you need a reality check. MOST corporate CEOs in 2023 are on the same morally bankrupt ideology "page" as Hitler was.
The consequences of a flawed evolutionary paradigm are severly deleterious to rational and logical thinking in modern society.
Capitalists fail to connect the negative consequences of predatory capitalist, rampant planetary exploition with the Darwinian irrational pseudo-scientific concept of a mad scramble for resources by amino acids magically "self assembling in a totally random manner" (there is ZERO scientific evidence for that atheist wishful thinking) resulting in the giant truck that is running us over now.
It's MIGHTY convenient for the conscience free psychos that fathered GAME THEORY (a twisted view of interrelationships between sentient beings justifying any and all heinous and barbaric behavior in the quest for who gets the most toys "caloric intake, etc") to have DARWIN around to make everything jes' natural behavior.
Think about it:
Darwin--> Wall Street "scientific" fig leaf hijacking-->Freud-->Game Theory, a PARADIGM DESIGNED TO REPLACE the GOLDEN RULE as the most rational and species perpetuating behavior (the "fittest") is PRECISELY WHAT IS BEHIND the LACK OF GUILT by the 1% for TRASHING THE PLANET!
The holistic altruism, cooperation and sustainability view of every process to see its value in the biosphere from the birth of new life to the decay of dead matter, NECESSARY for that future new life, is ABSENT from the modern paradigmatic view of SUCCESS. It's SUICIDAL and CRIMINALLY INSANE.
But they won't let it go because, because... THEY KNOW it will lead to GUILT, LIABILITY and an END to the con games denying reality. Treating other humans as you wish to be treated is not optional if we wish to survive as a species.
Survival of the "fittest", NO! Survival of the altruistic, YES!
Anyone that thinks there is is ANY "evidence" for evolution of life from the "primordial soup" of prebiotic Earth, needs to look at the actual science:
Dr. Tour ✨ SHINES LIGHT on Scientific Paradoxes on Origin of Life - Steve Benner, Part 03
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‘But TIK, the reason WHY Hitler started WW2 makes no sense!’ 🤔
TIKhistory 269K subscribers 223,823 views Apr 5, 2021
Why would Hitler go to war with Poland, knowing that Britain would declare war on Germany? For some, including my Patreon, the reason why Hitler started the war don't make any sense. But when you look at the way Hitler viewed the world (his ideology and his economics) and if you understand the way Chamberlain changed his mind after the Munich Agreement, then it all falls into place. This video will help you put the pieces of the puzzle together.
AGelbert COMMENT: Yes 🦍 TIK, Hitler's erroneous view of historical reality, evident in "Mein Kämpf" ("My Struggle"), plus the dire economic situation in Germany at the time, strongly influenced Hitler to invade Poland when he did.
So, you were correct to point out logical flaws in Musk's assumptions. That said, you failed to use the excellent chart of logic you displayed in the above video. How?
Your refusal to plug in to your chart of logic the overwhelming influence that Hitler's morally bankrupt 🦍 Social Darwinist Ideology played in the "equation" you lectured Elon Musk on, that resulted in the attack on Poland, evidences that you made a greater error in judgement than he did, though Musk is certainly right that Hitler was a world class liar who firmly believed in the continuous use of disingenuous propaganda to achieve his patently unethical purposes.I will say to you, as you correctly said to Elon Musk, don't do that.
You need to go farther back than 1914 to learn how, exactly, Hitler's "survival of the fittest" calloused worldview was shaped from the time he was a child. If you don't, then you are missing MOST of the equation, not just a "minor" part of it.
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Mar 15, 2023USS Franklin - Surviving a Comet 💥🔥 Strike
Drachinifel 412K subscribers 295,273 views
Today we take a look at the March 1945 attack on USS Franklin and how her crew 🦅 managed to save the ship.
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Third Atomic Bomb Attack - Japan 1945
Mark Felton Productions 1.86M subscribers 4,483,909 views Aug 9, 2020
If Japan did not surrender on 15 August 1945, a third atomic bombing was planned. In this programme we examine how Japan's surrender was a complicated and difficult process involving a military coup and how America was reluctantly faced with potentially using the third bomb - but which city was to be targeted? And would it have ended the war?
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A German Pilot Stopped Fighting to Save a Damaged American B-17
Dark Docs 1.04M subscribers 3,084,690 views Mar 1, 2021
During the five grim years of World War 2, all of the countries involved created an effective propaganda system that portrayed enemy soldiers as monsters who deserved nothing more than death.
British, American, German, Russian, and Japanese army departments were tasked with creating a false reality where stereotypes, racism, and discrimination were used to humiliate the enemy and increase the hatred between adversaries.
However, the reality of war was often different.
On the Western Front, enemies were mostly treated with respect, according to old laws of war. Although it may seem unlikely, acts of honor and soldier camaraderie depicting the ancient Warrior Ethos were no strange thing to the Second World War soldiers.
Especially among air force pilots, mutual respect and acts of honor shared by aviators resembled the medieval acts of chivalry.
A young 21-year-old USAF pilot, Charlie Brown, experienced first-hand the virtuous conduct exhibited by a Luftwaffe pilot during a bombing raid when his B-17 bomber was severely damaged and about to go down.
After the German pilot, Franz Stigler, realized the American crew was defenseless, he took the dangerous decision of escorting the aircraft to safety across German-controlled territory.
It was an almost unbelievable tale of two pilots that met each other as enemies in the skies of WW2, survived, and died as best friends and real kamaraden.
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The Real Reason why a Third Atomic Bomb was Never Deployed
Dark Docs 1.05M subscribers 21K 801,237 views Mar 21, 2023
The way a war was fought changed forever in August of 1945 when the United States detonated the world's first atomic bombs on top of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But despite the massive damage, the Japanese had still not surrendered a week later.
While Japan's conditional capitulation was a promising sign, it was not enough for President Harry S. Truman and his cabinet, and unbeknownst to the general public, the president had dozens of potential bombs at his disposal.
While it might appear that dropping two atomic bombs on top of Japan was always the plan, historical evidence shows that in the closing months of World War 2, the Manhattan Project scientists were building as many atomic bombs as they could.
American officials, scientists, and military leaders pondered whether or not dropping more bombs was necessary, but hours before Japan's surrender, the responsibility lay solely on one man...
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