B29 Photo

• Apr 22, 2010

• #1

R

RogueDiver

Recruit

2

0

Apr 22, 2010

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?

 

• Apr 22, 2010

• #2

Capt. Vick

Moderator

Staff

Mod

13,859

5,946

Jul 23, 2008

Long Island, New York

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"?

 

• Apr 22, 2010

• #3

D

diddyriddick

Staff Sergeant

1,387

1

May 29, 2009

Hamlet, NC, US

Capt. Vick said:

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"?

Click to expand...

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.

 

• Apr 22, 2010

• Thread starter
• #4

R

RogueDiver

Recruit

2

0

Apr 22, 2010

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.