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PATH TO HIROSHIMA
Enola Gay and Bockscar were far from
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by an American B-29 bomber, preceding the country’s capitulation in WWII. Here navigator Theodore Van Kirk recalls his experience of the day that changed history
At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare
Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dead. As the 80th anniversary of the attacks approaches, Stephen Walker, one of the last writers to interview them, revisits what they told him
V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers
The atomic bombings Eighty years ago, the ...
Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f
