US Troops Preparing to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima | BBC Studios
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- In the final briefing, American troops are told this will just be another day, another bombing. Soon enough, however, the event causes a media storm. Hear first hand accounts from the crew that flew the atom bomb to Japan in this clip from the BBC.
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When you know you are about to make the sun rise twice in one day on a nation.
Well....that's a way of puttin it I've never heard before lol geeze and to think those are not even the big boys anymore....smh I wonder if we humans have set a cap at how strong they could get because testing them would start to become impossible at some point without severe effects on the earth.
Twice in one day? The bombs were 3 days apart
@@Rryan8065 1 - the actual sunrise
2 - the device
There is no proud in this act
Anyone who has read Churchill's memoirs knows that when he received word of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into the war, he wept tears of joy, knowing that an Allied victory was now inevitable.
And that victory over Japan was going to occur without the A Bomb.
The victory of the war was completely decided by the soviets, had the nazis won the battle of Stalingrad, they would have control of all the oil. They would have won the war in Europe, wiped out the soviets and the allies.
@@dionsanchez2775 At the cost of many more lives. Just stop
@@dionsanchez2775 the Japs had it coming, my Dad was in the Pacific during ww2, the A bomb saved American lives. and that is all that mattered
If you blame the pilots solely for the bombing and death then you are incredibly naive. It was a terrible moment in history but a glorious moment of man's innovation.
Completely agree, being in the military, they had a job to do, and they had to do it, not their fault at all.
Well said.
You can’t blame the us for this. I get sick of people defending imperial Japan when they were the ones that forced the us to drop the bomb on them, they were never going to surrender, and the us were forced to drop it as the Japanese were ordered to cause mass devastation and loss of life to each us invasion on their territory.
Let’s say your job tells you to do something like kill a man and his family you will do it bc it’s your job????Y Y’all are sick af
Not really. I wish we didnt have nuclear weapons
All i have to say about the people who suffered after post war injuries, "death comes two ways, slow or fast."
-Sgt. Reznov, Red Army
A true cultured man
BBC did a really good job on this documentary.
The people sweating in that room though. They felt that tension on what's about to happen
It's on Tinian Island in the Pacific in the middle of summer. Hot and humid guaranteed.
"Move outta the way!" "Wave for us!" "Alright *waves* there, happy?"
Also that takeoff... shit that was close
We can scarcely count the lives that were saved by this action: those aboard U.S. ships and civilians in Japan that were ordered to defend their homeland to the death.
Saved lives?The Japanese were beaten,isolated with stuff all resources and no allies whatsoever.Time for siege tactics rather than murdering 100,000 plus civilians to impress Russia with a new toy.
Modern re-education. Study more and select opposimg opinions.
@@gavinjames8749 Ever read what happens during a siege? People starve to death and start eating each other. Disease sets in, etc. Sure we could have won that way but it would have been more than the ~100k dead from the bombs.
Plus impressing Russia with that toy kept us from having to use it on them in Western Europe.
When you make judgement about an event in history, you have to consider what the alternative would have been. Don't drop the bomb to save 100,000 Japanese (we were at war with Japan) and possible have 1,000,000 Japanese die and 100,000 Allied casualties over the next year and a half. Remember we had allies that would have died too.
@@gavinjames8749 Why don't you tell that lie to the surviving veterans that were slotted to invade Imperial Japan ...... Gavin. My Uncle help retake the Philippines. The fight to take the Philippines and Manila was brutal because the Japanese refuse to surrendered. Once they succeeded in taking the Philippines, his unit had orders to be part of the invasion of Japan. The causality just on our side would have been a million and the Japanese....10 to 30 million! The A-bombs ended that war quickly and tens of millions of lives were spared! Now go pound sand kid.
"Little Boy" was 4.4 metric tons; 9,700 pounds
Almost the full payload capacity for a B-29 at the time of 5 tons. One bomb. And Fat Man was well over max capacity in comparison.
You re saying it like you re somehow proud, it’s funny how Americans keep calling everyone a terrorist while they wiped 200k people in one day, shame on them
@@dukephantomx9151
Respectfully, you need to know your history of the war. Japan started the war by attacking U. S. @ Pearl Harbor.
They would not surrender.
They were given warnings.
Silence.
A massive invasion of the Japanese homeland was planned, where millions of lives, on both sides, would be lost.
Using the A-bombs forced Japan to surrender.
Avoiding a horrific invasion. Saving millions of lives by shortening the war.
Please know your history correctly, before you start ignorantly spouting off your lack of knowledge.
@@dukephantomx9151 ur legit dumb
japan started the war
read what that guy commented above me
If the Japanese were "trying to surrender" for over a year, why didn't their PM go on the radio and say "We'll surrender as long as the emporer is safe"?
Because what they wanted was status quo ante bellum.
Have you ever read Churchill's memoirs? When he heard of Pearl Harbor, he wept tears of joy, because once the US was in the war, Churchill understood an Allied victory was only a matter of time.
Doing quite well? On 12/7/41 people in the Kremlin could hear German artillery fire, and France, Benelux, Denmark, Norway, Poland, & Yugoslavia were under Axis occupation..
Why does the world have to fight? Just be civil, fair, and treat everyone the same, enjoy life.
Unless your willing to fight to defend those ideals, people who'd rather trample all over them and you would rule the world
Sounds like communism to me! Right on, sister
I had a friend who is related to one of the Enola Gay crew members. The guy told me about how when he found out about the whole thing he straight up told the man he hated him. Keep in mind we were both the kinds of kids that grew up watching anime, reading manga and playing Japanese video games. Still, it's something he regretted saying to him, especially since it's the last thing he told him before he died. It wasn't until some Hiroshima survivors came to school to talk about their experience. Since he was JROTC, the guy came in wearing his dress uniform, decorated like a Christmas tree. The survivors made their speeches, and once everyone left the room, the guy had a one-on-one talk, saying that he's apologizing on behalf of his great grandfather. He was all in tears and looked like he was gonna fall to his knees. The survivors took it gracefully, saying they had moved on from the past, and all they really asked was that no one suffers the same catastrophe again.
He should not have to apologize for fighting a war to defend his country or his freedom. Japan was not innocent.
@@desa415 The children were? I get your perspective but it's kinda a tuff position.
@@helloworld6160 Kids die in wars. The ones who start the wars are to blame. If they did not start the war, no one would have died. This statement excludes war crimes, of course, which shouldn't happen no matter who starts the fighting.
@@desa415 But the hypocrisy in that is the fact that the U.S sets the standards for war crimes. They easily deemed themselves not accountable for vaporizing innocent civilians during the atom bombings which by their own laws is considered a war crime.
Look I benefited from it, and I understand why it had to be done, I just find it sad and I definitely feel for the Japanese civilians.
They where farmers who just wanted to farm, children that just wanted to play with their friends. I can't help but to think that we traded innocent Japanese lives for American soldiers lives.
@@helloworld6160 USA had to defend their citizens. How many more Americans would die if the war continued? They didn't attack Japan first. They gave them a chance to end the war and they didn't take it. Once the Nuke dropped, they still never surrendered. It is the presidents job to protect citizens. He ordered the Nukes to be dropped and the war ended which saved countless American lives. It's war.
the suspence music on takeoff
This was the most cowardly act in human history.
@kentamitchell THANK YOU!
japan had it coming
@Who said it was me? Dude what?
Can put this into full graphics?
Or maybe he (quite correctly) understood that an invasion would have cost a million lives, and an invasion would have cost several million. And a compromise peace would've meant Pacific War II in 20 years.
@tmb09177 how are the remedial English classes coming along?
None of the Hiroshima citizens could ever just think of the tragedy they are going to face in next few hours...
how nervous would you be flying a plane carrying a bomb worth the equivalent of 12000,000 tones of TNT :)
Thanks for sharing, geekboy
Please watch a movie about the bombings it’s called “barefoot gen” it shows how the attack affected family’s children etc etc and the manga artist was a survivor and was telling what he knew
You basted
hirohito's radio broadcast was at noon 8/15; however, he gave the surrender order to the Cabinet at 2am 8/10/45- 15 hours after the Nagasaki bomb exploded.
Where can one buy this DVD in a region 1 DVD?
@Towncrier123 Iwo Jima was Feb/Mar '45, Okinawa was 4-6/45. They weren't going to delay advances because of a weapon they hadn't tested yet. Too bad we didn't have the bombs three years earlier.
fred olivi was the navigator on the second strike aircraft on that mission,I was doing fundraising for VFW in the 90s and ,his name appeared on the telephone pages the bossman provided,,,,,fred was matter of fact ,living as any retiree,nice guy to talk with,,
@kentamitchell Well, Oppenheimer, Fermi, and the many physicists worked very hard on the The Manhattan Project, and I'm proud.
@johnyRidin Ya, that pretty much wraps it up nicely.
@Caracalla23 No problem. One of the things I love about your country is that you can stand up on a soapbox at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park and sound off to your heart's content. I first visited there in 1977- I fervently hope that tradition will still be going strong long after I'm dead and gone. Eternal diligence is the price of liberty my friend.
Ten years on and that ability has already been lost.
Conservatives taking away constitutional rights here in 2022
I really wish I could comment on the ads that they show for videos.
How much pain we have given to the people of Japan, but in return Japan has given us
Brotherhood
Unity
Humanity
New Technology.
Even after the nuclear attack, the people of Japan do not want America's bad, how many great values they have.
@johnyRidin Well said.
Does anyone know the name of this documentary? I'd like to watch it in full again but I cant find the name, any help would be much appreciated, thank you.
Tibbets knew exactly what he was doing, and never expressed any remorse- rather, he was proud that he helped end the war. He died Nov. 1, 2007, a few months short of his 93rd birthday. (Is longevity a sign of Divine Favor? :)
@kentamitchell Thanks for confirming my message! Nothing and no-one is eternel down here!
@abdulaleem20000 Its true, his name was yamaguchi, and he has one of the worst streaks of luck of any civilian, and one of the luckiest fates as a survivor of an atomic bomb
LOL! When are you going to send us a copy of the macmemo geekboy?
The Legend of Korra on American Special in Atomic bomb.
@chocker0087 LOL! Like you've ever heard a shot fired in anger.
The navigator of the Enola Gay selected the T shaped Aioi bridge as his aiming point because it was easily recognizable from the air.
Now that’s what you call 200,000 kill streak
Guess what, the Empire deserved this due to Nanking, Manila, Changi, Shanghai, Alexandria Hospital, etc.
What goes around comes around.
+jaydee040
We warned them to get out before we bombed those places. But they were not be allowed to leave by the Japanese nationalist government.
Proof is here-
www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/truman-leaflets/
and here-
hyperallergic.com/216234/the-leaflets-dropped-before-the-hiroshima-atomic-bomb/
As a Chinese I thank America for this :)
jaydee040 do you know what Japan did in ww11 they attacked a city in China called nankin the Japanese troops raped over 300,000 women. And also killed 10,000,000 Chinese people. And they conducted experiments on innocent chinese people at unit 731. You would literally have to drop over 10 of the bombs at USA drop down on Hiroshima to equal the amount of deaths Japan caused on innocent people. Research before you talk
Japan did not deserve the nuke none of us deserve the nuke
John K but still what would happen in future wars now the world has over thousands of nukes
Tippetts should have told his copilot that he was going to extend the takeoff run to 150 before rotating. Poor command communication led to confusion and panic.
Paul Tibbets, the pilot, named the plane after his mother.
@Losuol FYI Hiroshima was the headquarters of the Japanese 2nd General Army under Field Marshal Hata. 43k J troops were in the city; >20,000 died in the bombing.
Japan will never forget what an America has done to them.
Imagine they knew how to make such bomb but color television was said to be impossible back then.
"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget"?
Winston Churchill addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress on 26 December 1941.
***** I understand that Allied leaders were flawed men. But compared to their Axis counterparts they stood on a lofty moral high ground.
+jaydee040 Please give the sources for your ignorant accusations. Don't bother, I know you're just pulling them out of your ass.
+jaydee040 You said "FDR's government had prior knowledge of where and when the attack on Pearl was going to happen". Now you're saying we knew an attack was imminent. Two completely different meanings. Yes, the US and Japanese relations were strained to the point that war was coming. If the Japanese attacked it could have been anywhere from Alaska to the Panama Canal for that matter. But to say FDR knew of Dec. 7 and did nothing...which you did...implies conspiracy.
They cracked many, not all. You are aware that the codes changed very often right?
+jaydee040 Again, give me proof that FDR knew about and did nothing to stop Dec. 7th. Where are these US documents you say show this? You're only spouting accusations. And I ask you this...Why would he do that? As an excuse to go to war? He could have come up with numerous ways to do that that didn't involve the destruction of the fleet at Pearl. FDR would be the most hated man in US history if this was true, so again where's your proof?
Nah, I don't think it is.
The japanese already declared themselves in Total war. If you don't know what that means, they were fully prepared to use their Civilians as war assets and treat enemy civilians as enemy war assets (i.e Kill them).
Civilian or not, the bomb saved more lives than it took. The socioeconomic consequences of a mainland assault coupled with the fact there were 15 million predicted casualties meant the bombs saved the war from turning uglier.
@xAVeryCleverNamex there is still small amounts of radiation in the sea and air, and yeah sure you couldn't tell the cities had been nuked, apart from the fact there's a massive area in the middle of both the cities that hadn't been repaired
I have totally outsmarted AND exposed Einstein.
@PandaOnFire1000 Sorry to hear you feel that way. 1. Are you aware Hiroshima was the headquarters of the Japanese 2nd Area Army under Field Marshal Hata. 43,000 j troops were in the city; approx 20,000 died.
2. Death toll from H&N approx 200,000
Death toll Japanese invasion of China 1937-45: approx 15 million
True Heroes!!!
Military base? As a matter of fact, Hiroshima was the hq of the j 2nd General Army under Field Marshal Hata. There were 43,000 Japanese troops in Hiroshima.
i doubt there will ever be a war of this magnitude again, as long as there is no defense from these weapons. Nobody gains anything if everyboy dies
OWNED
@DawgPro thanks for confirming my previous message
now we need to drop a few on Detroit
@Justin H hi please riply
Long-term consequences? I've been to Nagasaki- both cities were completely rebuilt over half a century ago.
3 days later- dead silence from Brian.
Because that would kill more people than it would save. On the other hand in hiroshima it saved more lives that would have fought in the war in the first place.
"a HUGE improvement" is incidental to argument and you were also wrong about your previous comment
FYI, I have been to Nagasaki. Both cities were completely rebuilt over 60 years ago.
@banzai70 Freakin'A Skippy! My uncle was in a unit set to participate in the Honshu landing 3/46, and my Dad was going to be flying in a bomber crew.
Your country is not evil, no country is. However the deed of annihilating these cities is evil.
Since *when* is war "fair"?
this was fast one
Unit 731 never seems to be brought up.
Nickelodeon American Horror of World War II.
NO
Read my post six back. What part of that did you not understand?
@stevenewyork He had lots of company in that regard.
The final countdown.
@Dizzawn99 FYI Hiroshima was hq of the Japanese 2nd General Army under Field Marshal Hata. 43,000 j troops were in the city & approx 20,000 died in the bombing.
By 8/45 J army was drafting "volunteers" M15-60 F17-40 and had closed all schools so preteens could work in munitions factories.
really, how many times have you been to the US again?
Yes, in fact they have quite a number of times. Wether these apologies were "official" though, is up for debate. I can see the positives and negatives on both sides of the argument.
@upisoft2 Hull got it wrong. The effect of the A bombs on Japanese (hirohito's) morale made an invasion unnecessary.
The actions of an enemy government do not justify the murder of the enemy's people.
what music is that
My bad. confused with other city when i said the Military base was not on the city. Hiroshima's Museum about that shows the military was almost into the center. However. wasn't a bit unhuman to wipe out the nuke over the whole city ?
"ENEMY TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!" **BE BEEP! BE BEEP! BE BEEP!**
Just so they could make a point...
Has anyone noticed there is no Hollywood film specifically about the bombing of Hiroshima?
@Dizzawn99 FYI Hiroshima was the headquarters of the Japanese 2nd General Army under the command of Field Marshal Hata. 43,000 J troops were in the city & approx 20,000 died in the bombing.
By 8/45 J Army was drafting 'volunteers' M15-60 F17-40, and J preteens were working in munitions plants. So in Japan in 1945, WHO was a "civilian"???
They didn't give any pills to those innocent children :'(
@dm001jp lol! Somewhere George Orwell is smiling. :)
@abdulaleem20000 True story. Mr. Yamaguichi died earlier this year at the age of 93.
@upisoft2 1."abhorrent"
2. Hiroshima was the headquarters of the Japanese 2nd General Army under Field Marshal Hata. 43,000 j troops were in the city & >20,000 died.
1000 plus? LOL thats nothing compared to how many would have died fighting the war. It was not a war crime, if it was they would be court marshaled. Its called taking preventative measures and finishing it once and for all.
@kentamitchell yes but it would go off if the plane was hit by an AA gun wouldn't it?
240,734 died on Okinawa. Kyushu's garrison was x7 larger. Do the math.
FYI Hiroshima was the hq of the j 2nd General Army under Field Marshal Hata. There were 43,000 J troops in the city & almost half of them died in the bombing.
LMAO. You do the math. The estimates that Truman received wee 40, 000!!!! STOP IT! -Tataki
*Brilliant* retort.
Oh, look everybody! Oscar Wilde just joined the party!
@DonutVIP it's not a code name, it's the name of the Pilot's mother
@fallout401 why would u say that how would u know
Tell that to the Americans who have developped mini nukes to be used in
terroism
Yes I know. I just dont like people picking sides in this. Both sides did horrible attrocites that likely haunted alot of them until their days were finally gone.
"DON'T PRESS THE BIG RED BUTTO-"
Is this a movie ???
jet stream over Japan made high altitude bombing very inaccurate