B29 Photo

[RogueDiver]

I have a collection of fairly rare B29, Tinian and atom bomb pictures that I am restoring. I will be putting together a web slide show. They will be professionally printed and sold online.

Here is an interesting image:

The Third Nuke : War in the Marianas The missing Little Boy

Notice the second Little Boy?

 

[Capt. Vick]

How do we know that the second picture was taken on Tinian? Couldn't it have been taken at Los Alamos, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Oak Ridge, or where ever they assembled these "fire crackers"?

 

[diddyriddick]

How do we know that the second picture was taken on Tinian? Couldn't it have been taken at Los Alamos, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Oak Ridge, or where ever they assembled these "fire crackers"?

IIRC, the bombs weren't actually assembled until after the individual components arrived at Tinian. It is entirely possible that the non-atomic components were assembled w/out the nuke. Again, IIRC, we only had enough fissile material for the two bombs.

 

[RogueDiver]

The Third Nuke : War in the Marianas The missing Little Boy

Scroll down to the third image.

This is a photo from Tinian. Look at the calendar on the wall, it reads August 16th.

The bag on the table is the third core.