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August 5th, 2020 | #1 |
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Hiroshima 1945 - The British Atomic Attack
This is the story of the secret 'Black Lancasters', a specially trained RAF unit that was to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Why? Because the American B-29 Superfortress couldn't do it! Find out how this extraordinary situation arose and how the Americans managed to perform the mission in the end. |
August 6th, 2020 | #2 |
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The B-29 was a larger aircraft than the Lancaster, why would it have had trouble carrying the Fat Man or Little Boy bombs? True, Lancasters were modified to carry the Tallboy and Grand Slam conventional bombs which were bigger than the atomic bombs, but I never read anything about the B-29 not being able to accommodate the bombs or the RAF even being privy to the Manhattan Project in that amount of detail.
As a side note, the RAF actually flew B-29s loaned from the USAF for a short while in the 1950s as a nuclear bomber where it was known as the Washington. It was a stop-gap until the British could develop the jet-powered Victor and Vulcan bombers for the nuclear delivery role.
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