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| Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 8 | Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 2 of 8 | Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 3 of 8 | Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 4 of 8 |
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| Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 5 of 8 | Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 6 of 8 | Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 7 of 8 | Loading 'Little Boy' bomb into B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay', Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945, photo 8 of 8 |
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| Mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945 | Mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima, Japan, 6 Aug 1945. Taken by SSgt George R. 'Bob' Caron, the tail gunner on the B-29 'Enola Gay' using a Fairchild K-20 aerial camera. | Thomas Ferebee, bombadier of B-29 Bomber Enola Gay, with Norden bombsight, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 6 Aug 1945 | Kikka prototype jet aircraft with crew, Kisarazu Airfield, Japan, 7 Aug 1945 |
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| Kikka prototype jet being prepared for its first flight, Kisarazu Air Field, Japan, 7 Aug 1945 | Kim Gu and William Donovan, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, 7 Aug 1945 | Lieutenant Colonel L. F. Maybach, with pen, completing paperwork relating to Japanese prisoner of war 2nd Lieutenant Minoru Wada, seated, Libby Field, Davao, Mindanao, Philippines, 7 Aug 1945 | Lieutenant George Elsey, Captain James Vardaman, and Warrant Officer Edwin Hoying aboard USS Augusta, 7 Aug 1945 |
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| Small Taiwanese civilian motor boat being strafed by PB4Y-2 aircraft of US Navy VPB-104, just off Dongji Island, Pescadores Islands, 7 Aug 1945 | US Marine Corps PBJ Mitchell pilot Major Sidney Groff, right, adds the name of Japanese prisoner of war 2nd Lieutenant Minoru Wada to the flight manifest at Libby Field in Davao, Mindanao for transfer to Moret Field, Zamboanga, Philippines, 7 Aug 1945 | A Chinese girl from one of the Japanese Army's 'comfort battalions' talking to a British Army officer in Rangoon, Burma, 8 Aug 1945 | Hospital ship Tranquillity arrived at Guam with survivors of Indianapolis, 8 Aug 1945, photo 1 of 3; destroyer escort Steele in foreground |
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