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Tsuchisaki Air-raid on August 14, 1945.
The last air-raid by the B-29s in Japan.

The Hiroshima/Nagasaki was not necessarily special for the Japanese.
They would not have minded it soon if the dropper had not been proud of it to attract the world attention.

It was troublesome for the Nagasaki people when they were asked if they would leave the church relic as monument by the national public in the late 1940s. They didn't leave it as Christians needed the church on the same place since the middle ages.
Historians and activists missed it but Christians.


Tsuchisaki Air-raid

Source: 終戦前夜の空襲 - ズボラで、脈絡も無いブログ

Urakami Tensyudo Church

Source: 浦上天主堂 | 長崎市 平和・原爆
 
A pumpkin bomb was also dropped in Osaka on July 26 1945 with casualty 7.
Few paid attention to it as it was only one of hundreds or thousands from the sky.

If you talk about Hiroshima/Nagasaki, you will talk about other Japanese cities.
If you are not interested in other cities, you don't have to talk about Hiroshima/Nagasaki because they should be talked as a set.

War was over today !

Pumpkin bomb. The moment of explosion in Osaka.

Source: 『大阪に落とされたパンプキン爆弾』
 
I love the aircraft pictures on Japanese airfields, during and after the war. A friend, now deceased, was stationed in Japan several year beginning in 1959. He also loved flying and told me some Sundays when weather was perfect, at Tachakawa (please excuse spelling) on the Japanese self defense side, the base commander would fly a restored Tony and do a short flight demonstration, land and put the plane away. I have never seen a reference in print anywhere, and wonder if it is just my fading memory. Anyway, please keep up the great pictures and stories.
 
Date: Between Sunday, 28 September 1941, to Friday, 31 October 1941
Place: North Atlantic
Photographer: Unknown
The Type VIIB German submarine U-83, commanded by Ritterkreuzträger Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Werner Kraus (1 July 1915 - 25 May 1990), in the North Atlantic during its second patrol in autumn 1941. At that time the U-83 was part of the 1. Unterseebootsflottille in Brest, France. The boat wears a Viking ship emblem and an interesting camouflage scheme on its conning tower. This was retained, at least initially, after the boat was attached to 23. Unterseebootsflottille in the Mediterranean in January 1942. U-83 was sunk on 4 March, 1943 in the Mediterranean south-east of Cartagena, in position 37.10N, 00.05E, by 3 depth charges from a British Hudson aircraft. 50 dead (all hands lost), including its captain at the time, Kapitänleutnant Ulrich Wörisshoffer (born 21 March 1917).
 
Kraus served as 1st watch officer on U-47 from January 1940 until November 1940 having replaced Engelbert Endrass. He later commanded U-83 and U-199. He was on board the latter when it was bombed and sunk by aircraft off the coast of Brazil on 31 July 1943. Captured, he was sent as a POW to the United States. Kraus was one of the 25 POWs who escaped from Camp Papago Park, Arizona, during the night of 23–24 December 1944.

Hans-Werner Kraus
 
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