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Chapter 787 Group
The training courses for these B-29 heavy bomber pilots were also very monotonous. That is, the bomb bay of these B-29 heavy bombers, which could carry ten tons of bombs, could only carry one bomb at a time. However, when dropping this bomb, the bomb had to fly more than nine kilometers and the impact point had to be within three hundred meters from the bombing target.
On April 12, 1945, President Rowe of the United States suddenly fell into a coma in the White House and died that afternoon.
That evening, Harry S. Truman, the Vice President of the United States, was sworn in as the President of the United States. The entire inauguration ceremony lasted only one minute.
That very evening, the Secretary of the Army of the United States told the newly-elected President Du of the United States something that the newly-elected President Du of the United States had never heard of before.
That was a few years ago, President Roland Einstein of the United States accepted a suggestion from the famous physicist Albert Einstein and decided to start developing a new weapon with unprecedented power.
Subsequently, all the relevant scientists in England and the United States were organized to carry out research in laboratories scattered across the United States, and more than 100,000 people are now working hard in various parts of the United States to ensure the successful manufacture of this new weapon.
The research program for this new weapon is kept absolutely confidential. Except for a very few people, even all the people who are currently working on it do not know where their research will be used for or what the products they produce are used for.
And the weapon that can end the entire war will be developed within four months. It is called the atomic bomb.
In February 1945, the Allied Forces launched the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theater. Finally, the U.S. army occupied Iwo Jima after paying a heavy price of 6,871 deaths and 21,865 injuries.
Immediately afterwards, in April 1945, the Allied Pacific Theater launched the Battle of Okinawa. The U.S. army completely occupied Okinawa Island after paying the price of more than 70,000 casualties.
Before these two landing operations, the U.S. military had already formulated plans for Operation Crown to land in Kyushu, Japan, and Operation Olympic to land in Kanto, Japan.
However, due to the heavy casualties suffered by the U.S. army in the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa, the U.S. army re-evaluated its ability to resist the Japanese army and the casualties it might suffer. Finally, the Allied Pacific Theater Command estimated that the casualties on the Allied side in the landing operations on the Japanese mainland would be more than one million, an estimated casualty figure that the Allied forces could not bear at all.
In order to reduce Allied casualties, speed up the progress in the Pacific battlefield, force the Japanese government to surrender to the Allies, and curb the expansion of the Soviet Union in the Far East, President Du of the United States decided to drop atomic bombs on six cities in Japan, including Tokyo, Kyoto, Niigata, Kokura, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
Later, after careful study by the US military, it was decided to exclude Kyoto, Japan from the list of cities where the atomic bomb was dropped, because Kyoto, Japan is the ancient cultural capital of Japan. This was also due to the political needs of the US military's post-war occupation and rule of Japan.
Tokyo, Japan, was excluded from the list of cities where the atomic bomb was dropped because it had been subjected to multiple strategic bombings by the U.S. Air Force and it was difficult to assess the actual explosion effect of the atomic bomb.
As for Niigata in Japan, it is an important aluminum product production base in Japan, but because it is too far away, it was excluded from the list of cities where the atomic bomb was dropped. At the same time, although Kokura in Japan is an important industrial base in Kyushu, Japan, it was also excluded from the list of cities where the atomic bomb was dropped because of the poor weather conditions there.
Finally, after careful consideration, the US military selected Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan as the targets of its atomic bomb attack.
Because Hiroshima, Japan is the city of the Japanese Army and the location of the Second General Army Headquarters for the defense of the Japanese homeland. All Japanese Army troops heading to China, Korea, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands all set sail from Hiroshima. Nagasaki, Japan was selected because Nagasaki is an industrially developed region in Japan, and Nagasaki's shipbuilding industry in particular is an important base for the Japanese Navy.
On July 26, 1945, the governments of the United States, England and China jointly issued the Potsdam Declaration, urging the Japanese government to surrender quickly.
On July 28, the Japanese government refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration proposed by the governments of the United States, Britain and China. Therefore, for military and political considerations, the United States government prepared to use atomic bombs to attack the Japanese mainland according to the original plan.
Hiroshima, Japan, is an army city. It is also the headquarters of the Second General Army of the Japanese Homeland Defense Force and the military control area of the Japanese Army's China Expeditionary Force.
At Ujina Port south of Hiroshima City, generation after generation of Japanese troops, accompanied by the farewell of a large number of Nagasaki citizens, boarded the Japanese Navy troop transports in the port and headed to the Yalu River in China to fight against the Qing army at that time, to Fengtian in China to fight against the Russian army, to annex Korea, to occupy China's northeast region, to Marco Polo Bridge in China, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and other places. In addition, there is also the famous Japanese Naval Factory near Hiroshima, which has Japan's first-class naval shipyard.
During this time, the U.S. secret "509 Group" participated in air raids on various Japanese cities, along with other B-29 heavy bombers from the U.S. Air Force's Tinian Island base.
However, the B-509 heavy bombers of the "29th Group" are different from other B-29 heavy bombers of the U.S. Air Force in that the B-509 heavy bombers of the "29th Group" only carry one bomb at a time and are required to maintain a certain altitude each time they drop a bomb.
The bombing by the B-509 heavy bombers of the "29th Group" was the same as in previous training courses, requiring the bombs to hit the target accurately and explode within visual range.
After actual combat against Japanese cities, the crew of the B-509 heavy bomber of the "29th Group" had greatly improved their skills in this technology and became familiar with flying in complex weather conditions.
Up to this point, only one of the B-509 heavy bomber pilots of the "29 Group" knew why they had to practice this action over and over again. He was Colonel Tibbs of the United States Air Force who was in charge of the team.