Hiroshima+and+Nagasaki

Hiroshima and Nagasaki  By: Megan

On august 6, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbits flew the Enlonga gay, a plane witch carried the first atomic bomb.They flew over a Japanese town called Hiroshima.at seven a.m., people in the town saw a bomber plane and turned on the bombing sirens. After an hour, they thought it was just a false alarm, and they went on with there lives. but they were wrong. at 8:15 a.m, the first atomic bomb was dropped. The bomb was nick named little boy, but they soon realized this was nothing like a little boy. A huge flash that was said to be brighter than the sun flew onto the city in a matter of seconds. Even if the citizens knew this was an atomic bomb, they would still have no idea what was coming. About 75,000 died and a lot had very severe burns. three days later, Nagasaki felt the same affect. The two Japanese cities were badly destroyed. houses, buildings, and more were gone.

 The reason America dropped these bombs on japan, was because they realized japan would not easily back down. America wanted to end this war quickly, to spare as many lives as possible. A little after the bombing was over, japan surrendered, and because Germany war all ready defeated, the war was officially over.