It always upsets me to read comments as one sided as yours. Both sides had their share of evil and greedy people. The problem stems from allowing those persons to come to power in the first place. It's always the innocent who suffer, including us patriotic pawns who bear the brunt of highest casualties. For the lazy people who stay at home send us out to fight for them, then judge us as evil after the fact, consider the fact that we knew the horrors of war and went out to serve anyway. Peace nicks are like gangsters, You start the evil ball rolling rolling and then laugh at us pawns afterward. To people like me, your words are as much a weapon as it is a warning. Learn from the past and elect better people in the future.
Minor error - the U.S. built TWELVE atomic bombs in 1945 (three used) and another SIX in 1946 (two used). The recently declassified Operation Downfall plan called for Seventeen (17) to be dropped on Japan. The fission core of the third bomb to be dropped on Japan was on route to Tinian, in San Francisco by air, on August 15th to be deployed on or after August 19th on Kokura or Yokohama.
My parents suffered during the German bombing raids over Liverpool and Birkenhead. I had several Uncles who fort with the 8th Army and also in Burma. They were all grateful for the sacrifice the young USA aircrews gave to save the free world. We must remember many people from many countries gave so much. We cannot allow history to repeat itself
Unfortunately it always repeats itself. WW1 " The Great War " was supposed to be the war that ended wars . The Nazi genocide was another 'never again' until it happened again and again . No effort was made to stop the Rwandan genocide for example - literally nothing .
I would like to Thank All of the Veterans who Served in WW||, along with all of the Veterans throughout History. It’s a shame that this Film is not a required part of American History in High School. I’ve watched this film before and it still enlightens me to the Courage Displayed. Nobody wants to be in a War, but it is a necessity for Democracy unfortunately. I again Thank All of the Veterans throughout History for Their Service 🇺🇸
I was 12 when the announcement of the atomic bomb was broadcast... For the first time, since February 1942, when my Dad joined the Marine Corps,, we felt that there was a chance that we would get to see my father make it home alive...
My uncle Seymour Greenberg was in the army air corp. He flew b-17’s and b-29’s as the navagator. He was proud to tell me he “bombed the shit out of the nazi Germans and the Imperial Japs.” He called the b-17’s and b-29’s “cigar coffins.” He said flying was the biggest thrill of his life. RIP uncle Seymour. Much love and respect to the greatest generation who won WW2. 🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸
@Nahhman Uncle Seymour fought his heart ❤️ out to protect the only country he was Proud to call home and he knew it was worth fighting for while people such as yourself take advantage of every opportunity to bad mouth and disrespect the country that has given you such a comfortable life and more amenities than any other country for you to abuse and make use of. We all get aggravated, but it's important to know and pay attention to the facts of the matter and actually try to make a difference for positive change such as well, Uncle Seymour did so you could be disrespectful and not appreciate his sacrifice but still live in peace in this country.
Love and respect to my Dad Robert B Pile. He was a B-29 pilot stationed at Clovis, NM. He was involved in 3 crashes. These men were test pilots for a country they loved and a plane they knew could win the war. My Dad had some great stories like flying Howard Hughes over lake mead to check out some of his planes. Hughes did not say much. My Dad loved his time in the Air Corps. He loved the Air Corps, The USA and the B-29.
Men of magnificent courage. Fly 8 hours nonstop over Japanese held islands… in an aircraft that was the most complex of its day… yet hadn’t actually been air-tested when crews received them… Fly with/against the yet to be discovered jet stream… Drop your incendiary bombs from just 5-8 thousand feet… Over a fire storm burning at 12-1500 hundred degrees…In the most horrific turbulence man had ever successfully flown through. …
These heroes, rest in peace, and yesterday was June 6th,more heroes including Family.Respect the greatest generation, my Dad is one of that generation,i still have him.
I can’t tell you the exact date, because I don’t remember it. One evening in the mid 2000s, my wife and attended an evening Smithsonian event at the Garber Center in Washington. Beer and barbecue were on tap. The Garber Center was the location where the Smithsonian restored vintage aircraft. It was an amazing evening. Many of the employees and volunteers who worked there were in attendance to host us. One of the guests found a reentry nose cone he had developed for NASA. All the visitors were free to wander about and look and touch anything. I saw a big silver fuselage section and ducked to go under it. On the far side, I looked up and saw the words, “Enola Gay.” To say I was astonished, would be a huge understatement. I’m a WWII history buff. I didn’t know what to say. But that moment will remain in my memory forever.
And that was why the final assembly of both atomic bombs used on Japan was done in the air - they weren’t “drop safe” - they were expected to detonate on impact, the Hiroshima bomb with full yield because of its “gun” design, the Kokura/Nagasaki bomb with a lower yield but enough to remove Saipan as an airbase if the plane crashed on departure.
This is one of the rare documentary on B-29 bombing of Japan and the problems they faced initially. The plane was brand new and ironing out the bugs while carrying out op missions was a tall order.
Excellent Program! Especially the part narrated by one of my Heroes Gary Sinesse and Paul Tibet’s! Anyone who questions the need to drop those bombs simply hasn’t bothered to learn the real history of that time! Japan would never have surrendered any other way. Of course unbeknownst st U.S. the Soviet attack on Manchuria also figured into the equation, but Truman, Groves, Churchill, and the others could not have known the weight of that. It saved perhaps Millions of lives in the end, when considering the japanese who would have died during an invasion!
Yet, all but two of the 5 star generals in the U.S. opposed this war crime. They could have given the talks for surrender more time. And total baloney that it saved milliions of lives. Japan had no more military and no invasion was required. Only ou Americans still buy all all of that bs. The main reason for dropping the bombs was to show Russia what they had and to prove that they were insane and cruel enough to use it. As well, they could have just used it outside of a major city first as a warning. There was no urgent need to start killing people.
@@kryts27 I was not born then, my grand mother use to live near the base and operated a shop. US personels use to buy goods from her and she use to tell me stories about the base. I also have done my own research and now of the GYPIC (sub) training missions. Some of those B-29's crashed at the base. One on it way to Vernam Field entered a clowd and was not seen again .
There is a remarkable true story of a White Russian, anti-communist officer, who fled Vladivistok with his family and settled in Hiroshima. His son went to America to attend UCLA before the war, and was drafted into Army Intelligence because he was fluent in Japanese. He arrived in Tokyo with the occupation command forces, and get transport to Hiroshima. At the site of hus family home, destroyed by the bomb, a surviving neighbor hel9ed him find his family, who had all survived. He m9ved his family to Tokyo and they got work with US Forces Japan as translators. His sister married an army officer, and the family came to the US. It would make a GREAT movie.
27:15 shows the factory in Washington TWP., New Jersey, making the M-69 Incendiary Bomb, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Had a front company as the owner, United Wallpaper Inc.
The United Wallpaper Company was a real U.S. company. A lot of odd US companies made munitions during WW2 (Singer M1911 pistols are a collectors item, the FP-45 pistols made by General Motors not so much).
My Dad, also Bob Creager, was a right-gunner on B-29's in India, China, Iwo, and Tinian ... Flew the fire bomb and prisoner relief drops over Japan ... Came back with a piece of shrapnel in his back and malaria ... Made it to see the turn of the century in 2000.
*REST IN PEACE* *Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 - 1 November 2007)* was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The USA declined to get involved in WW2 due to public pressure and opinion, until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1942, but not before then. Roosevelt wanted to but his hands were tied by bureaucrats and an unsupportive and uncooperative senate. From September 1939 to June 1941 Great Britain faced the German forces alone. In June 1941 Germany invaded Russia (who maintained a mutual non-aggression pact between them up to that point) and then Russia swapped sides from Axis to the Allies and joined forces. If anyone is to thank (which nobody should be for war) it's the Japanese, for forcing the Americans into WW2 and giving them little choice to do what they should have done from the start! Otherwise they may have just fulfilled the self-appointed diplomatic negotiator and observer roles for the duration.
@@lucas_knightUnfortunately, the British welshed on their WWI loans, forced a too harsh peace treaty against Wilson's opposition, and then were too poltroonish to enforce their peace treaty. Americans were understandably worried about fighting with the British.
@@scottjoseph9578Likewise. In the early days of the N African campaign, Americans directly and indirectly killed more British troops than did the Germans. "Utterly useless" is the word my grandfather used to describe the Americans! And as a career soldier all the way to a Major, I take his word as gospel!
Don't steal glory you do not deserve. The war would've gone on longer but your are far from the reason it was won! We in Britain celebrate OUR grandparents. Not yours. Such an ignorant comment!
I am a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and served 5 years at HQ Strategic Air Command, working on deployment of the B-1 and B-2 bombers and the MX 10 warhead ICBM. Final assembly of the B-29s was done in giant buildings at OFFUTT AFB, OMAHA that are still there, with base offices built inside. My father was stationed in occupied Japan and met my Japanese mom at church. I was born there, and returned there to work 5 years, including 3 years at US Forces Japan. I speak Japanese. My Mom and her father were at home in Nagoya when B-29s dropped fire bombs on the city. They survived and evacuated to a family farm in the mountains. At HQ SAC, I served on the nuclear war recovery team which had annual war games with the Pentagon. The use of nuclear bombs on Japan was part of my training. The US plan for an invasion was just plain STUPID. The planners did not learn anything from the deception strategy used in the D-Day invasion that diverted German defenses to Calais. The US invasion would be a brute force landing in southern Kyushu, where Japan was preparing to respond with mass kamikaze planes, speedboats, and minisubs. The SMART plan would have recognized that NORTHERN JAPAN is CLOSER to the US West Coast than Kyushu. An invasion of Sendai would have been met with little defense. The kamikaze forces could not be sent north. A feint attack on Kyushu could draw out the defenders and allow B-17s from Okinawa to destroy them. The US could get a firm foothold at Sendai and destroy the few roads and railroads going north. The US controlled the sea and the air. The Japanese Army would not have been able to throw a large force against the US. Further footholds could be gainednat Aomori and Hakoodate, cutting off the northern island of Hokkaido and controlling the Tsugaru Strait, allowing landings at Niigata on the west coast in striking distance of Osaka. Half the country would been under US control
would love to learn more from you. You must have incredible insights from family and SAC. I thought the objective in assaults was to hit the enemy where they were weakest which makes the strategy you presented a strong case. My father was an Army infantry machine gunner training for the assault and he was sure he would not survived. His baby brother was a Marine, My stepfather was a flight engineer on a B29. Another Uncle was 82nd Airborne who jumped in Anzio (as re-enforcements) and Normandy. I could have lost all of my family and extended family. I had no faith in McArthur
Saipan is closer to the Japanese home islands than the Aleutians and the nearest islands are and were SOVIET territory. The Soviets didn’t enter the war until after the Nagasaki/Kokura attack was already underway.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025 ….. All my uncles served in WW2. One was at PH on Dec 7th. My late brother was a Vietnam vet. I was career military mostly serving mostly stateside. Growing up in the 1960’s almost everyone’s dad was a veteran.
It's fantastic that, even after all the wars that we've fought against each other..... we have stuck together and tackled a common enemy in the last 120 or so years......🇬🇧🇺🇸🇲🇫✌️✌️✌️
I like what was said at the end. Before anyone is critical of or makes any off color remarks about what these men did, what America did by dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, they should study and truly understand what we were fighting against. That was a different time and an enemy determined to do whatever it took to succeed and conquer the US, East Asia and the Pacific. Even when we defeated the soldiers in battles, the citizens would throw themselves off the cliffs to resist capture. Even after they were told no harm would come to them and all resources, food, water and medicine would be provided to them, they leapt. The Japanese truly fought to the death. Knowing these weapons would cause great loss of life, leaders were very hesitant to employ them. Only after every alternate scenario was considered, all finding the loss of live on both sides would have been much greater, were the nuclear bombs then deployed. It is funny to say but those bombs saved more lives than they took. Let us pray that the world will never fall into such tribulation as to consider using these again. There will be no winners.
FYI: The manufacturing plant shown at timestamp 10:18 until 10:26 is the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta, GA now known as building B-1 for Lockheed Martin. As the camera looks out the open door, the building on the left is B-4. 🐝⚡
Once you are attacked ,if there are any morals at all ....the only moral thing to do is to be so brutal as to bring an end quickly. War is a most horrible thing...to be avoided at all costs... But we must always be strong and ready to defend,to do otherwise is to invite attack by those who would enslave us
Actually, by the time of the atomic missions the B-29's engine problems had largely eliminated on the Silver plate bombers with the R3350-41 engine which had fuel injection along with improved cowl flaps, and reversible pitch propellers.
I live in Kitakyushu now which includes Yahata (Yawata) where the first bombing raid on mainland Japan happened in 1942. The raid is mentioned and the video shows Dokai Bay where I now live! I have recently visited two peace museums in our city - one has a machine gun from a B-29 which you can touch(!) and the other lots of details about the bomber “Bockscar” which was aiming to attack the Kokura arsenal but redirected because of cloud cover over the target to Nagasaki.
I have seen an article claiming the Japanese did not surrender solely due to the atomic bombs, but rather due to the Russian invasion of Manchuria. Supposedly, documents surviving from Japan's ruling counsel of the era show that the Japanese were hoping to fight the Americans to a point that they would come to the negotiating table, and they wanted the Russians to moderate those discussions. Then the Russians invaded, and that idea was off the table. Also adding to this argument was the fact that the firebombing campaign was already wiping Japanese cities off the map at an alarming rate, and yet the Japanese fought on. Whether you believe the atomic bombs ended the war, or that it went down more like what I said above, one thing does remain true. Had the Japanese not surrendered and forced the Allies to actually invade the home islands, it would have been a blood bath. Casualties would have been appalling on both sides. Many, many more people, military and civilian, would have died in the invasion of Japan than were killed by the atomic bombs. One way or another, the war needed to end without an all out invasion of the home islands.
I have seen claims that the dropping of the nuclear bomber was to show the world (USSR) what the America could do if the USSR did not stop it's advances across Europe After the Germanys defeat.
"I have seen an article claiming the Japanese did not surrender solely due to the atomic bombs," Well, I've never seen an article claiming that they did surrender *solely* due to the atomic bombs. Japan was beaten militarily and its cities were being systematically reduced to rubble. I have read more than one article positing that had this continued much longer they would likely have surrendered without the bombs, but the bombs gave the hard liners a face saving excuse to capitulate and end the pain.
@@gort8203 It is not discussed, but a big reason to drop the bombs was to show the Soviets what we had, not knowing that their spies had acquired much of the engineering already. Quite a few military and political figures realized that the future was likely to deliver a clash of ideals between communism, and the free world.
A friend I grew up with was team leader of the guidance system for the B1-B. Rockwell International, later acquired by Boeing built it. Dubbed the B-1B, deliveries of the new variant began in 1985; the plane formally entered service with Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a nuclear bomber the following year. By 1988, all 100 aircraft had been delivered. Still in use, won't be phased out until 2036.
I find it hard to believe that the USS Indianapolis, which delivered the bomb to Tinian, did so without an escort. If the ship had been sunk before reaching the island, the consequences would have been catastrophic.
Not really, no... the United States still had enough components on hand or nearing completion and could have had one Little Boy type and two Fat Man type bombs ready by September, 5th. So, they could have merely delayed the bombings by a single month, which would have barely changed history. Catastrophe averted.
Keeping the Indianapolis on return from Tinian a secret was unnecessary. Not having a convoy was also dumb. Just stupidity, people not willing to question dumb decisions by superiors.
@@Draxindustries1The bomb casings for both bombs was already on Tinian. The Indianapolis only carried the fission cores and the officers who installed them.
Paul Tibbets is a national hero. Not only did he drop the first A-bomb, but he never once regretted or apologized for doing so. He did nothing wrong, and his reason for doing it makes absolute sense. Many men today could learn a lot from him. Grow a backbone, love and stand up for your country, and never apologize to the woke mob for anything. It just gives them even more reason to continue yelling at you about things they have no clue about. Like Dutch said, if you weren't fighting in the Pacific in WWII, you have no clue how brutal it was and why the bombs were 100% justified. Learn real WWII history, not the fake crap they push in highschool nowadays. If they even talk about WWII at all.
15:57 - That is absolutely NOT true. Due to the initial unreliability of the B-29, US military leaders (including General Lemay) gave serious consideration to utilizing Britain's Avro Lancaster for dropping the atomic bombs. The Lancasters were already capable of dropping the Tallboy bombs, which were used to sink the Tirpitz. The Tallboys were 21 feet in length and weighed 12,000 lbs. Little Boy was a scant 10 feet in length and weighed 9,700 lbs... Fat Man was also 10 feet long, and weighed in at nearly 10,300 lbs; however, it was five feet wide... but the Lancaster's bomb bay was just about six feet wide. So the Lancaster had almost no modification issues for carrying either bomb, and was given serious consideration for doing so. However... General Groves and Hap Arnold both felt that the bomber that carried the world's first atomic bomb should be an American bomber. They also thought the B-29 would require fewer modifications (they were wrong, it required more - the entire rear gun section had to be removed to build a second bomb bay, so the B-29 dropped Little Boys from the forward bomb bay and the Fat Man was dropped from the rear bomb bay). In addition to their feelings about wanting an American bomber, the B-29 did actually outperformed the Lancaster in a number of key areas The Avro Lancaster flew at a max speed of 282 mph, with a service ceiling of 21,000 feet and a range of only 2,530 miles... while the B-29 flew at max speed of 357 mph, with a service ceiling of 32,000 feet and had a range of 3,250 miles. Work therefore began to convert the B-29 to drop the atomic bombs
They did not consider using Lancaster's for the mission of deploying the bomb. The Lancaster was certainly one of the best bombers of the second world war.However it was not suitable for that mission and the bomb was still considered to be secret. The use of non American bombers was out of the question.
@@davidfoster5906 -- It's actually the other way around. Until Project Silverplate, the B-29 was completely unsuitable for dropping the atomic bombs, and the only bomber in the world that could do it with minimum alterations was the Avro Lancaster.
@@davidfoster5906 Sorry, the Avro Lancaster (with air-to-air refuelling added) was originally going to be dropping the Atomic bombs, because the original B29 was designed with 2 medium sized bomb bays with the wing spar in the middle, making it incapable of carrying a single very big bomb. It was only after a total redesign of the central fuselage, causing huge delays in overall testing and final safety development, that the B29 was able to carry the A-bombs - solely for US prestige reasons instead of operational suitability. But the B29s that dropped the bombs still used Avro Lancaster Type G and Type H bomb racks as the Americans didn't have any designs proven suitable for one single big bomb up to 10 tons. However, it was better for the RAF "Black Lancaster" squadron crews as they would only have been 5 miles away at detonation instead of 9 miles.
The Lancaster did not allow for access to bombs and fat man had a complex arming procedure. The B-29 was pressurized and flew higher than the Lancaster. Altitude was critical for this mission for reasons that are obvious.The reliability issues ,the engines, was solved by1945. Those engines were later used in passenger airplanes. By this point in the war ,I doubt the American generals wanted Britain to take any credit for the mission that ended the war for reasons that should be obvious There was squabbling between Britain and U.S. generals and privately ,Churchill and Rosevelt. The B-29 was a newer design with superior height range and power but ultimately the decision to use the B-29 was political .Yes they could have removed the floor from the Lancaster as well as other customizations for the mission ,but the B-29 was ready made for that mission. The cost to develop the B-29 was second only to cost of the bomb. Failure was not an option and the war was to be ended with a made in USA label. Again I like British air planes Mosquito Spitfires Hawker and the technology , all that helped win that war and the bravery of the peoples of England.
Fun fact: the development of the B-29 Superfortress was the most expensive of any project in WW2 at 3 billion USD, or 67 billion USD in 2024. Compared to the Manhattan Project which cost 2 billion USD, or 45 billion USD today in 2024.
It’s a little known fact but during the War B-29s did make limited strikes on Japanese occupied Singapore. Sadly it’s hardly mentioned in the History books here.
The island of Tinian is where the USS Indianapolis delivered the Nuclear bomb parts! Its was sunk by a Japanese Sub while on the way to Leyte for crew training! 🇺🇸
33:09 Manhattan project saw America, Italian, British, German and Hungarian scientists to make it happen. United Startes alone had only 1 first tier scientints on the matter, Seaborg. Everyone else doing critical work were evacuees from Europe. It was People from "old world" teaching how atomic bomb will be done.
I woulda loved to be able to talk to the crew of the enola gay, they seemed like great guys that really were dedicated and knew what the hell they were doin .
I feel for those that had to suffer from those bombs...and for those that suffered during all atrocities committed for the sake of evil, hate, money, power, greed, and politics. Rest in peace
Get a brain and a memory, and learn to read. Never EVER forget who bombed Pearl Harbor, in a cowardly undeclared act of war. The appalling atrocities subsequently committed by Jap soldiers against defenceless unarmed people, in the name of their no-balls emperor sitting on his scrawny arse back home. The so-named Rape of Nanking in China just before WW2 resulted in more civilian murders by Jap troops than the 1945 A-bomb death toll at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Lest We Forget.
More likely the “D O ten” i think…and look at elevators and ailerons…mini-versions of them mounted above each. for pilot to actuate…. As main surfaces were too large…
It bothers me to this day that whenever the story of the USS Indianapolis is brought up the fact that over 600 of the 900 men who went into the water after the Japanese torpedoes struck it died was due to an order to maintain radio silence even though the ship had already delivered it's cargo to Tinian! Even the films that were made about the disaster usually leave out any mention of the order to not send any rescue vessels to the area. This hundreds of sailors died for no good reason. Another point most Americans and Japanese at that time had no idea that we had dropped atom bombs on the islands. As far as most were aware including most of the Japanese government it was the massive B 29 raids that caused all the destruction. Even after Hirohito gave his speech where he announced his decision to surrender most people missed the point of an atom bomb being involved until some time later.
Wrong. Hirohito was completely aware that atomic bombs had been used on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the surrender was announced. Truman made the announcement on August 9th in a global broadcast. The Japanese government didn’t believe the Americans had more than one however after the bombing of Hiroshima (the ten more they actually had would have been a “surprise” - a third core on was on route to Tinian on August 15th for use on August 19th).
While the B-29 was the most advanced bomber and likely the best heavy bomber the De Haviland Mosquito was possibly the best bomber of the war. It had an excellent survival record despite being given some of the most dangerous missions. I believe some Mosquitoes were pressurized. Potentially the US could have had Mosquitoes in production by 1942. But US experts said a wooden bomber was not feasible. While some Mosquitoes had problems with production of glue and wood construction these were mostly overcome. Balsa wood needed to be kept dry to avoid expansion and contraction problems. Packard was building Merlin engines. With B-29 engine problems it was much more dangerous for crews. High level bombing over Japan was largely impractical due to Jetstream winds. Canada and Australia manufactured Mosquitoes. Less than 10 000 Mosquitoes were built for all of its roles. Bomber, fighter bomber, pathfinder, maritime strike, night fighter and other specialist roles. Range may have been a problem for attacks on mainland Japan until very late with better bases. The US built 24 000 B-24 bombers. How many Mosquitoes could have been built. Very few Mosquitoes were shot down by German jets. The US was provided with all design data for the Mosquito. Mosquitoes could hit most targets in Germany. And did many raids on Berlin. Including daylight raids for Goering's speeches. The US was not short of wood. Some timbers were difficult to acquire, such as balsa, but alternative were found for some. The US likely supplied wood for Mosquito production. The famous US torpedo boats were made of wood and included very complex construction methods. Used at sea in high speeds. Higgins boats were largely timber. De Haviland Vampire jets used wood construction.
The Air Force literally CHILLED/froze bats and put incendiary bombs on them, stacked them into racks and dropped them! And, the incendiary bats WORKED!
Continued: The plutonium bombs were VERY unreliable. Of the next 9 bombs fired after the war, 9nly 1 went nuclear. If the US tried dropping a 3rd and 4th bombs, one or both could have fizzled, making their threat questionable, and not a viable alternative to invasion. The US lucked out that Emperor Hirohito overruled his generals, and spoke directly to the people, undermining all authority for continued fighting by the army. Despite the racist hatred focused on the emperor, Macarthur recognized that without his actions, an awful invasion and guerilla war could have been the result.
Did you know... for the cost of a single hamburger meal at McDonalds (not per day, not per week... but once per MONTH)... you can watch stuff like this without having to suffer through even one single commercial. No... but you'd rather bitch about how it's "ruining" the documentaries you want to watch. Meanwhile, I haven't had to watch a single commercial in something like... 5 or 6 years (maybe even longer).
Yes it changed the war however several important factors missing here ,The atomic bomb wasn't ment for Japan . original Germany was the intended target yes the allies were seriously contemplating using it on Nazi Germany, in case Normandy was a disaster and the Allies pushed back into the sea, and the Russians capitulated or failed to Push the Germans back , Germany was a formidable force to be reckoned with , the US could not have took on the might of the German divisions, alone in a straight one on one fight without incurring huge casualties the US chiefs of staff knew this , that's why Germany was firstly chosen for the atomic bomb .it's waffen SS Panzer divisions were the best in the world the German luftwaffe still a pivotal force, and the battle of the Atlantic the kreigsmarine U-boats war was still largely undecided still causing havoc amongst British merchant shipping sinking huge tonnage of vital cargo basically the allies would have been destroyed had they landed on Normandy 1944 with German division still largely intact , thankfully the Soviets did the job of destroying large formations of German ground forces at huge cost to the Russians. Japan wasn't even a secondary target, towards the end of 1944, the Japanese officials were putting out feelers of negotiations to the Soviets who as allies had enterted the Pacific theatre of war via china pushing back the Japanese land forces with considerable ease , causing great concerns amongst the Americans, special general MacArthur who was very anti Soviet,/Communist , as far as the US forces were concerned they didn't want Soviet forces any where near the last remainder of Japanese forces , Americans basically fought the Japanese with one hand singlehandedly, and didn't want interference from the Russians nor did they want the Soviets any say on the eventual surrender of Japanese forces ,and involvement in the occupation of the Japanese homeland , the Japanese officials /military were well aware of the country's military forces combat effectiveness with the US army airforce B 29 superfortress formations bombing Japanese city's, by now the Americans had pretty much abandoning high altitude bombing which was ironically designed to operate at was causing to little damage to Japanese vital infrastructure , to which the US army airforce chiefs brought in general Curtis LeMay the operational effectiveness he was achieving of the eighth air force over Germany, was primarily because the American air force had given up on pinpoint accuracy bombing with there high /tec wonder Norden bombsight which turned out to be useless and instead copied the British RAF bomber command tactics of mass area bombing , so when general Curtis LeMay took over bombing missions over Japan, he reverted to low-level bombing as RAF operated at usually 20.000ft or slightly under ,mass firebombing using incendiary bombs this tactic destroyed more acreage and people then both the atomic bombs combined because mostly Japanese cities were made out of wood , city after city were firebomb causing tremendous firestorm killing thousands and thousands like the British RAF did at Hamburg (code name operation Gomorrah) 1943, In short the Americans were well aware of Japanese government officials dialoguing with Soviets officials about negotiating a conditional surrender, the Soviets acted in-between both US and Japanese , there was concerns from the Japanese side how there leader Emperor Hirohito (a living God in the eyes of the Japanese) would be treated they wanted immunity from any possible war crimes or the Emperor humiliated in front of his people , the American officials were playing hard-boiled and wanted unconditional surrender this back and forth came to naught, they wanted unconditional surrender they weren't moving of that demand, and this the Cruz of the matter,the Americans could have made that concession but didn't they stonewalled the Japanese why ? The reason why is ultimately the Americans wanted to see what a atomic bomb could do they spent millions and millions of tax payers dollars 5 years of development you think that It was going to be put back on the shelf ? The US military wanted to see this for real on a real live target Hiroshima was chosen 6th August 1945 followed by Nagasaki 110.000 Japanese instantly died , many more later to radiation poisoning ,and although the Japanese did surrender unconditional the Americans did give a concession granting the Japanese emperor immunity from an allied war crimes on the condition he declared himself a none living God to the Japanese people in a radio broadcasts and he declared the surrender and ordered all Japanese forces to surrender allied forces.
Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan for over a thousand years. It's primary industry was creating silk fabric. It was not an industrial or military center, and destroying it would only make it harder for Japan's people to accept surrender. Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah had worked for years in Japan in the 1920s, and was a professor of Japanese language and history, the ONLY expert on Japan in Congress. He spoke with Secretary of War Stimpson and persuaded him to take Kyoto off the target list.
I always wondered why so much is made of the word "mokusatsu" and its interpretations. The US told Japan "Surrender or be destroyed.". Japan did not surrender. So it was destroyed. Story. End of.
During WW2 was the USA capable of in flight fueling? If not the B-29s would have to land to be refueled. Although in 1923 air planes in flight refueling was accomplished.
My dad fought from the Gilbert's, to Japan. His brother flew B24s out of Italy. They came home, started families. Then, when the time came, the sent me, & my cousin off to Nam with a pat on the back. You'd think they would know better.
We did studied the era (and then some well before) and knew what went on. The whole Japanese culture were skewed by a victory where nature did much of the hard work for them. They missed the harsh lessons Europeans received from the Mongols. From that, came doctrines like Bushido codes which basically said their enemies were basically worthless (their own civilians and low ranks were as well ) , never did they thought one day, they would be the defeated ones. I doubt even WW2 and the two nukes are enough to change their culture, one sign is they tried to change history in text books and they have not apologized. Truman made the correct decision, not bad for a lowly salesman turned president. He cared more about his soldiers as any commanders should. He know an invasion would mean a fight to the death for many and if he had to nuke them to avoid it, so be it. Those are very weak nukes, by today's standards. Too bad the Americans ran out of bomb grade materials, for they should have dropped 10 more, they were so eager to die for their emperor they should not have been denied the chance to do so. If China ever have to invade Japan again, they would have better weather forecasts and better ships. The invasion force would be lightly armed only ( small arms), for no one would want their own troops to be in a fight to the death. The islands would be sterilized well before the invasion with enhanced radiation weapons. We suspect the Japanese people came from the first Chinese emperor who sent 300 pairs of people there to look for medicine so he can live forever in about 220 BC, China can always send another 300 pairs again.
The behaviour of the Japanese Army was despicable, if you were caught by them your chances of survival were very low. What they did to other humans, civilian or military, was attrocious. Not enough is reported about their behaviour during the war. For one example it is stated that the number of railway sleepers on the Burma railway equals the number of prisoners who died making it, literally worked to death. I doubt any American or British forces felt sympathy for the victims.
U.S did a lot to make Japan surrender, but Japan didn't want to surrender untill they realized the Soviet Union was steamrolling them out of Manchuria, thinking the Soviets could eventually enter Japan, they rather wanted the U.S to enter Japan instead of the Soviets
You must be confused. They did stop the mass murderers. It seems you are not aware that Japan murdered millions upon millions of innocent civilians, also using methods almost identical to Nazi Germany. They would have killed millions more if they had not be finally stopped.
@@yoseipilot my source: history, which includes testimony from people that participated in those atrocities. What are you exactly trying to deny: the holocaust perhaps, the asian holocaust, the Japanese torture camps? Please be more specific, and as detailed as possible, rather than the usual bull**** one line comment. Are you serioulsly doubting what Japan and Germany did, or are you just trolling? Either way, you should be ashemed for offending the memory of millions of innocent victims. We know that unlike Germany, Japan's policy has been to bury the memory of the atrocities the committed. We also know that for some reason they were allowed to get away with that, probably/most likely for political reasons, but that does not condone, and never will, their actions, which you can learn from history books, and not from the blog of a denier, or whereever you get your fantasy history from
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It always upsets me to read comments as one sided as yours. Both sides had their share of evil and greedy people. The problem stems from allowing those persons to come to power in the first place. It's always the innocent who suffer, including us patriotic pawns who bear the brunt of highest casualties. For the lazy people who stay at home send us out to fight for them, then judge us as evil after the fact, consider the fact that we knew the horrors of war and went out to serve anyway. Peace nicks are like gangsters, You start the evil ball rolling rolling and then laugh at us pawns afterward. To people like me, your words are as much a weapon as it is a warning. Learn from the past and elect better people in the future.
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Minor error - the U.S. built TWELVE atomic bombs in 1945 (three used) and another SIX in 1946 (two used).
The recently declassified Operation Downfall plan called for Seventeen (17) to be dropped on Japan. The fission core of the third bomb to be dropped on Japan was on route to Tinian, in San Francisco by air, on August 15th to be deployed on or after August 19th on Kokura or Yokohama.
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My parents suffered during the German bombing raids over Liverpool and Birkenhead. I had several Uncles who fort with the 8th Army and also in Burma.
They were all grateful for the sacrifice the young USA aircrews gave to save the free world. We must remember many people from many countries gave so much. We cannot allow history to repeat itself
Unfortunately it always repeats itself. WW1 " The Great War " was supposed to be the war that ended wars . The Nazi genocide was another 'never again' until it happened again and again . No effort was made to stop the Rwandan genocide for example - literally nothing .
same w my grandparents
I would like to Thank All of the Veterans who Served in WW||, along with all of the Veterans throughout History.
It’s a shame that this Film is not a required part of American History in High School.
I’ve watched this film before and it still enlightens me to the Courage Displayed.
Nobody wants to be in a War, but it is a necessity for Democracy unfortunately.
I again Thank All of the Veterans throughout History for Their Service 🇺🇸
My Dad was a flight engineer on the B-29 fortunately he came back from every mission. He has always been my Hero❤.
I was 12 when the announcement of the atomic bomb was broadcast...
For the first time, since February 1942, when my Dad joined the Marine Corps,, we felt that there was a chance that we would get to see my father make it home alive...
Very good, all original footage. Second part same as other video with interviews from the pilots who flew. Thanks for sharing.
My great uncle flew 29s over Japan. He did survive the war. One of three brothers that served in the war, he was the only one that made it home.
My uncle Seymour Greenberg was in the army air corp. He flew b-17’s and b-29’s as the navagator. He was proud to tell me he “bombed the shit out of the nazi Germans and the Imperial Japs.” He called the b-17’s and b-29’s “cigar coffins.” He said flying was the biggest thrill of his life. RIP uncle Seymour. Much love and respect to the greatest generation who won WW2. 🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸
if only there had been a side worth fighting for
My respects to your uncle.
@Nahhman Uncle Seymour fought his heart ❤️ out to protect the only country he was Proud to call home and he knew it was worth fighting for while people such as yourself take advantage of every opportunity to bad mouth and disrespect the country that has given you such a comfortable life and more amenities than any other country for you to abuse and make use of. We all get aggravated, but it's important to know and pay attention to the facts of the matter and actually try to make a difference for positive change such as well, Uncle Seymour did so you could be disrespectful and not appreciate his sacrifice but still live in peace in this country.
It was a fierce competitor to the Marine Corporation.
@@samantharay6098are you American?
Thank you for re-recording the audio
Thanks for the updated audio revision from the previous version of this film -clearer.
Love and respect to my Dad Robert B Pile. He was a B-29 pilot stationed at Clovis, NM. He was involved in 3 crashes. These men were test pilots for a country they loved and a plane they knew could win the war. My Dad had some great stories like flying Howard Hughes over lake mead to check out some of his planes. Hughes did not say much. My Dad loved his time in the Air Corps. He loved the Air Corps, The USA and the B-29.
Men of magnificent courage.
Fly 8 hours nonstop over Japanese held islands…
in an aircraft that was the most complex of its day…
yet hadn’t actually been air-tested when crews received them…
Fly with/against the yet to be discovered jet stream…
Drop your incendiary bombs from just 5-8 thousand feet…
Over a fire storm burning at 12-1500 hundred degrees…In the most horrific turbulence man had ever successfully flown through.
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These heroes, rest in peace, and yesterday was June 6th,more heroes including Family.Respect the greatest generation, my Dad is one of that generation,i still have him.
My daddy was a paratrooper with the 82nd 504th. Lost him in 2010 June 7th. I always said he went home to be with his brothers who never came back.
Eternal respect for these heroes. They have paid with effort, blood and some with everything they have to save not their country, but the world.
I can’t tell you the exact date, because I don’t remember it. One evening in the mid 2000s, my wife and attended an evening Smithsonian event at the Garber Center in Washington. Beer and barbecue were on tap. The Garber Center was the location where the Smithsonian restored vintage aircraft. It was an amazing evening. Many of the employees and volunteers who worked there were in attendance to host us. One of the guests found a reentry nose cone he had developed for NASA. All the visitors were free to wander about and look and touch anything. I saw a big silver fuselage section and ducked to go under it. On the far side, I looked up and saw the words, “Enola Gay.” To say I was astonished, would be a huge understatement. I’m a WWII history buff. I didn’t know what to say. But that moment will remain in my memory forever.
My Father was an A/C in the 869th, first group on Saipan, A[]3, lost 4 engines on take off over his completing 40 missions, 35 over Japan.
Bless him
And that was why the final assembly of both atomic bombs used on Japan was done in the air - they weren’t “drop safe” - they were expected to detonate on impact, the Hiroshima bomb with full yield because of its “gun” design, the Kokura/Nagasaki bomb with a lower yield but enough to remove Saipan as an airbase if the plane crashed on departure.
Gary, I admire you so much for all you have done for your Country! Overwhelming Thanks!
Well worth watching, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching
This was an excellent piece of work, I am impressed
This is one of the rare documentary on B-29 bombing of Japan and the problems they faced initially. The plane was brand new and ironing out the bugs while carrying out op missions was a tall order.
Excellent Program! Especially the part narrated by one of my Heroes Gary Sinesse and Paul Tibet’s! Anyone who questions the need to drop those bombs simply hasn’t bothered to learn the real history of that time! Japan would never have surrendered any other way. Of course unbeknownst st U.S. the Soviet attack on Manchuria also figured into the equation, but Truman, Groves, Churchill, and the others could not have known the weight of that. It saved perhaps Millions of lives in the end, when considering the japanese who would have died during an invasion!
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Yet, all but two of the 5 star generals in the U.S. opposed this war crime. They could have given the talks for surrender more time. And total baloney that it saved milliions of lives. Japan had no more military and no invasion was required. Only ou Americans still buy all all of that bs. The main reason for dropping the bombs was to show Russia what they had and to prove that they were insane and cruel enough to use it. As well, they could have just used it outside of a major city first as a warning. There was no urgent need to start killing people.
Tibbets was an arrogant d-bag. And Japan would have surrendered when the Soviets invaded. That was their main reason.
My father was on the USS Enterprise & He was awarded the Purple Heart
Bless him
Watched from Jamaica. B-29 bomber crews use to come to the US Army Base Vernam Field in my country on training missions.
Sir or Madam, if you watched that then you would be an elderly citizen now.
@@kryts27 I was not born then, my grand mother use to live near the base and operated a shop. US personels use to buy goods from her and she use to tell me stories about the base. I also have done my own research and now of the GYPIC (sub) training missions. Some of those B-29's crashed at the base. One on it way to Vernam Field entered a clowd and was not seen again .
There is a remarkable true story of a White Russian, anti-communist officer, who fled Vladivistok with his family and settled in Hiroshima. His son went to America to attend UCLA before the war, and was drafted into Army Intelligence because he was fluent in Japanese. He arrived in Tokyo with the occupation command forces, and get transport to Hiroshima. At the site of hus family home, destroyed by the bomb, a surviving neighbor hel9ed him find his family, who had all survived. He m9ved his family to Tokyo and they got work with US Forces Japan as translators. His sister married an army officer, and the family came to the US. It would make a GREAT movie.
27:15 shows the factory in Washington TWP., New Jersey, making the M-69 Incendiary Bomb, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Had a front company as the owner, United Wallpaper Inc.
The United Wallpaper Company was a real U.S. company.
A lot of odd US companies made munitions during WW2 (Singer M1911 pistols are a collectors item, the FP-45 pistols made by General Motors not so much).
My Dad, also Bob Creager, was a right-gunner on B-29's in India, China, Iwo, and Tinian ... Flew the fire bomb and prisoner relief drops over Japan ... Came back with a piece of shrapnel in his back and malaria ... Made it to see the turn of the century in 2000.
Bless him
VERY INFORMATIVE! A must watch for all.
*REST IN PEACE*
*Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 - 1 November 2007)* was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
If USA wasn’t involved in this war the world would be so dark place to live thanks to all USA soldiers and manufacturers ❤
The USA declined to get involved in WW2 due to public pressure and opinion, until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1942, but not before then. Roosevelt wanted to but his hands were tied by bureaucrats and an unsupportive and uncooperative senate. From September 1939 to June 1941 Great Britain faced the German forces alone. In June 1941 Germany invaded Russia (who maintained a mutual non-aggression pact between them up to that point) and then Russia swapped sides from Axis to the Allies and joined forces. If anyone is to thank (which nobody should be for war) it's the Japanese, for forcing the Americans into WW2 and giving them little choice to do what they should have done from the start! Otherwise they may have just fulfilled the self-appointed diplomatic negotiator and observer roles for the duration.
@@lucas_knightUnfortunately, the British welshed on their WWI loans, forced a too harsh peace treaty against Wilson's opposition, and then were too poltroonish to enforce their peace treaty.
Americans were understandably worried about fighting with the British.
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@@scottjoseph9578Likewise. In the early days of the N African campaign, Americans directly and indirectly killed more British troops than did the Germans. "Utterly useless" is the word my grandfather used to describe the Americans! And as a career soldier all the way to a Major, I take his word as gospel!
Don't steal glory you do not deserve. The war would've gone on longer but your are far from the reason it was won! We in Britain celebrate OUR grandparents. Not yours.
Such an ignorant comment!
What a great documentary!
Very interesting video 👍
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I am a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel and served 5 years at HQ Strategic Air Command, working on deployment of the B-1 and B-2 bombers and the MX 10 warhead ICBM. Final assembly of the B-29s was done in giant buildings at OFFUTT AFB, OMAHA that are still there, with base offices built inside.
My father was stationed in occupied Japan and met my Japanese mom at church. I was born there, and returned there to work 5 years, including 3 years at US Forces Japan. I speak Japanese.
My Mom and her father were at home in Nagoya when B-29s dropped fire bombs on the city. They survived and evacuated to a family farm in the mountains.
At HQ SAC, I served on the nuclear war recovery team which had annual war games with the Pentagon. The use of nuclear bombs on Japan was part of my training.
The US plan for an invasion was just plain STUPID. The planners did not learn anything from the deception strategy used in the D-Day invasion that diverted German defenses to Calais. The US invasion would be a brute force landing in southern Kyushu, where Japan was preparing to respond with mass kamikaze planes, speedboats, and minisubs.
The SMART plan would have recognized that NORTHERN JAPAN is CLOSER to the US West Coast than Kyushu. An invasion of Sendai would have been met with little defense. The kamikaze forces could not be sent north. A feint attack on Kyushu could draw out the defenders and allow B-17s from Okinawa to destroy them. The US could get a firm foothold at Sendai and destroy the few roads and railroads going north. The US controlled the sea and the air. The Japanese Army would not have been able to throw a large force against the US. Further footholds could be gainednat Aomori and Hakoodate, cutting off the northern island of Hokkaido and controlling the Tsugaru Strait, allowing landings at Niigata on the west coast in striking distance of Osaka. Half the country would been under US control
That’s your opinion and you should not speak using your rank and representing The USAF; I too am retired USAF & spent many years in SAC.
I say speak your mind brother thank God them people's fought for our freedom of speech.
would love to learn more from you. You must have incredible insights from family and SAC. I thought the objective in assaults was to hit the enemy where they were weakest which makes the strategy you presented a strong case. My father was an Army infantry machine gunner training for the assault and he was sure he would not survived. His baby brother was a Marine, My stepfather was a flight engineer on a B29. Another Uncle was 82nd Airborne who jumped in Anzio (as re-enforcements) and Normandy. I could have lost all of my family and extended family. I had no faith in McArthur
Saipan is closer to the Japanese home islands than the Aleutians and the nearest islands are and were SOVIET territory.
The Soviets didn’t enter the war until after the Nagasaki/Kokura attack was already underway.
Lt James Dawson was a USAAF B-29 rated pilot in India. Unfortunately he died in India. He was my uncle
Bless him
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025 ….. All my uncles served in WW2. One was at PH on Dec 7th. My late brother was a Vietnam vet. I was career military mostly serving mostly stateside. Growing up in the 1960’s almost everyone’s dad was a veteran.
Very well done narration of a piece of history.
Accurate & comprehensive.
Ex16 Air Assault Brigade & 22regt Special Air Service 'B' Squadron.🏴☠️🇺🇲🇬🇧
It's fantastic that, even after all the wars that we've fought against each other..... we have stuck together and tackled a common enemy in the last 120 or so years......🇬🇧🇺🇸🇲🇫✌️✌️✌️
Indeed...
There is a B-29 on display at the SAC Aerospace Museum located along interstate 80 between Omaha and Lincoln,, Nebraska. This museum is worth a visit.
What a profetic video.
I like what was said at the end. Before anyone is critical of or makes any off color remarks about what these men did, what America did by dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, they should study and truly understand what we were fighting against. That was a different time and an enemy determined to do whatever it took to succeed and conquer the US, East Asia and the Pacific. Even when we defeated the soldiers in battles, the citizens would throw themselves off the cliffs to resist capture. Even after they were told no harm would come to them and all resources, food, water and medicine would be provided to them, they leapt. The Japanese truly fought to the death. Knowing these weapons would cause great loss of life, leaders were very hesitant to employ them. Only after every alternate scenario was considered, all finding the loss of live on both sides would have been much greater, were the nuclear bombs then deployed. It is funny to say but those bombs saved more lives than they took. Let us pray that the world will never fall into such tribulation as to consider using these again. There will be no winners.
FYI: The manufacturing plant shown at timestamp 10:18 until 10:26 is the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta, GA now known as building B-1 for Lockheed Martin. As the camera looks out the open door, the building on the left is B-4. 🐝⚡
Once you are attacked ,if there are any morals at all ....the only moral thing to do is to be so brutal as to bring an end quickly. War is a most horrible thing...to be avoided at all costs... But we must always be strong and ready to defend,to do otherwise is to invite attack by those who would enslave us
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Actually, by the time of the atomic missions the B-29's engine problems had largely eliminated on the Silver plate bombers with the R3350-41 engine which had fuel injection along with improved cowl flaps, and reversible pitch propellers.
I live in Kitakyushu now which includes Yahata (Yawata) where the first bombing raid on mainland Japan happened in 1942. The raid is mentioned and the video shows Dokai Bay where I now live! I have recently visited two peace museums in our city - one has a machine gun from a B-29 which you can touch(!) and the other lots of details about the bomber “Bockscar” which was aiming to attack the Kokura arsenal but redirected because of cloud cover over the target to Nagasaki.
My father captained a B-25 in the Pacific. He never talked about it at all.
Bless him
Thank you Dronescapes. A most excellent video. It's so interesting.
3:45 it would have been nice for you to sight some examples of new materials, methods and techniques/technologies
Very good.......
A historical event, it was this that contributed to the end of the world war 2
I have seen an article claiming the Japanese did not surrender solely due to the atomic bombs, but rather due to the Russian invasion of Manchuria. Supposedly, documents surviving from Japan's ruling counsel of the era show that the Japanese were hoping to fight the Americans to a point that they would come to the negotiating table, and they wanted the Russians to moderate those discussions. Then the Russians invaded, and that idea was off the table. Also adding to this argument was the fact that the firebombing campaign was already wiping Japanese cities off the map at an alarming rate, and yet the Japanese fought on.
Whether you believe the atomic bombs ended the war, or that it went down more like what I said above, one thing does remain true. Had the Japanese not surrendered and forced the Allies to actually invade the home islands, it would have been a blood bath. Casualties would have been appalling on both sides. Many, many more people, military and civilian, would have died in the invasion of Japan than were killed by the atomic bombs. One way or another, the war needed to end without an all out invasion of the home islands.
I have seen claims that the dropping of the nuclear bomber was to show the world (USSR) what the America could do if the USSR did not stop it's advances across Europe After the Germanys defeat.
No, they didn't end the war, it's only a coincidence that they surrendered days after the 2nd one was dropped.
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"I have seen an article claiming the Japanese did not surrender solely due to the atomic bombs,"
Well, I've never seen an article claiming that they did surrender *solely* due to the atomic bombs. Japan was beaten militarily and its cities were being systematically reduced to rubble. I have read more than one article positing that had this continued much longer they would likely have surrendered without the bombs, but the bombs gave the hard liners a face saving excuse to capitulate and end the pain.
@@gort8203 It is not discussed, but a big reason to drop the bombs was to show the Soviets what we had, not knowing that their spies had acquired much of the engineering already. Quite a few military and political figures realized that the future was likely to deliver a clash of ideals between communism, and the free world.
You should probably examine the motives of the people involved in that article. Politics plays a big part in how people present history.
A friend I grew up with was team leader of the guidance system for the B1-B. Rockwell International, later acquired by Boeing built it.
Dubbed the B-1B, deliveries of the new variant began in 1985; the plane formally entered service with Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a nuclear bomber the following year. By 1988, all 100 aircraft had been delivered. Still in use, won't be phased out until 2036.
The Bone is my favourite bomber aircraft of all time, she's a proper, bona fide hotrod.......... I absolutely adore her.
I find it hard to believe that the USS Indianapolis, which delivered the bomb to Tinian, did so without an escort. If the ship had been sunk before reaching the island, the consequences would have been catastrophic.
Not really, no... the United States still had enough components on hand or nearing completion and could have had one Little Boy type and two Fat Man type bombs ready by September, 5th. So, they could have merely delayed the bombings by a single month, which would have barely changed history. Catastrophe averted.
Keeping the Indianapolis on return from Tinian a secret was unnecessary. Not having a convoy was also dumb. Just stupidity, people not willing to question dumb decisions by superiors.
Catastrophic for the loss of the bomb but harmless otherwise . It needed to be armed with the sphere of uranium. Without this fat man was inert..
@@Draxindustries1The bomb casings for both bombs was already on Tinian. The Indianapolis only carried the fission cores and the officers who installed them.
Paul Tibbets is a national hero. Not only did he drop the first A-bomb, but he never once regretted or apologized for doing so. He did nothing wrong, and his reason for doing it makes absolute sense. Many men today could learn a lot from him. Grow a backbone, love and stand up for your country, and never apologize to the woke mob for anything. It just gives them even more reason to continue yelling at you about things they have no clue about. Like Dutch said, if you weren't fighting in the Pacific in WWII, you have no clue how brutal it was and why the bombs were 100% justified. Learn real WWII history, not the fake crap they push in highschool nowadays. If they even talk about WWII at all.
What's wrong with you?
MUCH better audio - excellent.
1:37 approx. Ii is world war two in roman numerals.
Tibbetts was AWESOME.
I found him to be an arrogant d-bag.
15:57 - That is absolutely NOT true. Due to the initial unreliability of the B-29, US military leaders (including General Lemay) gave serious consideration to utilizing Britain's Avro Lancaster for dropping the atomic bombs. The Lancasters were already capable of dropping the Tallboy bombs, which were used to sink the Tirpitz. The Tallboys were 21 feet in length and weighed 12,000 lbs. Little Boy was a scant 10 feet in length and weighed 9,700 lbs... Fat Man was also 10 feet long, and weighed in at nearly 10,300 lbs; however, it was five feet wide... but the Lancaster's bomb bay was just about six feet wide. So the Lancaster had almost no modification issues for carrying either bomb, and was given serious consideration for doing so.
However... General Groves and Hap Arnold both felt that the bomber that carried the world's first atomic bomb should be an American bomber. They also thought the B-29 would require fewer modifications (they were wrong, it required more - the entire rear gun section had to be removed to build a second bomb bay, so the B-29 dropped Little Boys from the forward bomb bay and the Fat Man was dropped from the rear bomb bay). In addition to their feelings about wanting an American bomber, the B-29 did actually outperformed the Lancaster in a number of key areas The Avro Lancaster flew at a max speed of 282 mph, with a service ceiling of 21,000 feet and a range of only 2,530 miles... while the B-29 flew at max speed of 357 mph, with a service ceiling of 32,000 feet and had a range of 3,250 miles. Work therefore began to convert the B-29 to drop the atomic bombs
They did not consider using Lancaster's for the mission of deploying the bomb. The Lancaster was certainly one of the best bombers of the second world war.However it was not suitable for that mission and the bomb was still considered to be secret. The use of non American bombers was out of the question.
@@davidfoster5906 -- It's actually the other way around. Until Project Silverplate, the B-29 was completely unsuitable for dropping the atomic bombs, and the only bomber in the world that could do it with minimum alterations was the Avro Lancaster.
Except the Lancaster did not fly high enough, nor fast enough to evade the blast. The bomber would have gone POOF had it been used. @@thebonesaw..4634
@@davidfoster5906 Sorry, the Avro Lancaster (with air-to-air refuelling added) was originally going to be dropping the Atomic bombs, because the original B29 was designed with 2 medium sized bomb bays with the wing spar in the middle, making it incapable of carrying a single very big bomb.
It was only after a total redesign of the central fuselage, causing huge delays in overall testing and final safety development, that the B29 was able to carry the A-bombs - solely for US prestige reasons instead of operational suitability.
But the B29s that dropped the bombs still used Avro Lancaster Type G and Type H bomb racks as the Americans didn't have any designs proven suitable for one single big bomb up to 10 tons.
However, it was better for the RAF "Black Lancaster" squadron crews as they would only have been 5 miles away at detonation instead of 9 miles.
The Lancaster did not allow for access to bombs and fat man had a complex arming procedure. The B-29 was pressurized and flew higher than the Lancaster. Altitude was critical for this mission for reasons that are obvious.The reliability issues ,the engines, was solved by1945. Those engines were later used in passenger airplanes. By this point in the war ,I doubt the American generals wanted Britain to take any credit for the mission that ended the war for reasons that should be obvious There was squabbling between Britain and U.S. generals and privately ,Churchill and Rosevelt. The B-29 was a newer design with superior height range and power but ultimately the decision to use the B-29 was political .Yes they could have removed the floor from the Lancaster as well as other customizations for the mission ,but the B-29 was ready made for that mission. The cost to develop the B-29 was second only to cost of the bomb. Failure was not an option and the war was to be ended with a made in USA label. Again I like British air planes Mosquito Spitfires Hawker and the technology , all that helped win that war and the bravery of the peoples of England.
Boeing was, and is a reason we still have a USA, and are defenders of the free world. Boeing B-52s first flown mid-1950s, are STILL a mainstay today.
Fun fact: the development of the B-29 Superfortress was the most expensive of any project in WW2 at 3 billion USD, or 67 billion USD in 2024. Compared to the Manhattan Project which cost 2 billion USD, or 45 billion USD today in 2024.
Yep
Numbers were good.
It’s a little known fact but during the War B-29s did make limited strikes on Japanese occupied Singapore. Sadly it’s hardly mentioned in the History books here.
The island of Tinian is where the USS Indianapolis delivered the Nuclear bomb parts! Its was sunk by a Japanese Sub while on the way to Leyte for crew training! 🇺🇸
How far Boeing has fallen. 😔
It is neet to see George Reeves in the Video !
33:09 Manhattan project saw America, Italian, British, German and Hungarian scientists to make it happen. United Startes alone had only 1 first tier scientints on the matter, Seaborg. Everyone else doing critical work were evacuees from Europe. It was People from "old world" teaching how atomic bomb will be done.
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I woulda loved to be able to talk to the crew of the enola gay, they seemed like great guys that really were dedicated and knew what the hell they were doin .
I'm very interested in who that lady is at 6:24.
I feel for those that had to suffer from those bombs...and for those that suffered during all atrocities committed for the sake of evil, hate, money, power, greed, and politics. Rest in peace
Get a brain and a memory, and learn to read. Never EVER forget who bombed Pearl Harbor, in a cowardly undeclared act of war. The appalling atrocities subsequently committed by Jap soldiers against defenceless unarmed people, in the name of their no-balls emperor sitting on his scrawny arse back home. The so-named Rape of Nanking in China just before WW2 resulted in more civilian murders by Jap troops than the 1945 A-bomb death toll at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Lest We Forget.
That's democracy for you!
It's great they did. It's what bloody imperialism costed for Japan and Germany
How many more would've died if the U.S. had to invade Japan?
When you bomb people with germs( Japan ) don’t expect people to give you huge (USA) 😂😂😂
Uno de mis sueños volar un avión de esos
May the sleeping giant always be vigilant!!!!!!!!!
Amen.
High lift and high wing loading are mutually exclusive aren't they?
More likely the “D O ten” i think…and look at elevators and ailerons…mini-versions of them mounted above each. for pilot to actuate…. As main surfaces were too large…
If Boeing then was Boeing now they'd have got half way to Japan and the wings would fall off.
It bothers me to this day that whenever the story of the USS Indianapolis is brought up the fact that over 600 of the 900 men who went into the water after the Japanese torpedoes struck it died was due to an order to maintain radio silence even though the ship had already delivered it's cargo to Tinian! Even the films that were made about the disaster usually leave out any mention of the order to not send any rescue vessels to the area. This hundreds of sailors died for no good reason. Another point most Americans and Japanese at that time had no idea that we had dropped atom bombs on the islands. As far as most were aware including most of the Japanese government it was the massive B 29 raids that caused all the destruction. Even after Hirohito gave his speech where he announced his decision to surrender most people missed the point of an atom bomb being involved until some time later.
Wrong. Hirohito was completely aware that atomic bombs had been used on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the surrender was announced. Truman made the announcement on August 9th in a global broadcast. The Japanese government didn’t believe the Americans had more than one however after the bombing of Hiroshima (the ten more they actually had would have been a “surprise” - a third core on was on route to Tinian on August 15th for use on August 19th).
@@allangibson8494rgo's point is that the firebombing raids had already been doing the same amount of damage as the atom bombs.
While the B-29 was the most advanced bomber and likely the best heavy bomber the De Haviland Mosquito was possibly the best bomber of the war. It had an excellent survival record despite being given some of the most dangerous missions. I believe some Mosquitoes were pressurized. Potentially the US could have had Mosquitoes in production by 1942. But US experts said a wooden bomber was not feasible. While some Mosquitoes had problems with production of glue and wood construction these were mostly overcome. Balsa wood needed to be kept dry to avoid expansion and contraction problems. Packard was building Merlin engines. With B-29 engine problems it was much more dangerous for crews. High level bombing over Japan was largely impractical due to Jetstream winds. Canada and Australia manufactured Mosquitoes. Less than 10 000 Mosquitoes were built for all of its roles. Bomber, fighter bomber, pathfinder, maritime strike, night fighter and other specialist roles. Range may have been a problem for attacks on mainland Japan until very late with better bases. The US built 24 000 B-24 bombers. How many Mosquitoes could have been built. Very few Mosquitoes were shot down by German jets. The US was provided with all design data for the Mosquito. Mosquitoes could hit most targets in Germany. And did many raids on Berlin. Including daylight raids for Goering's speeches. The US was not short of wood. Some timbers were difficult to acquire, such as balsa, but alternative were found for some. The US likely supplied wood for Mosquito production. The famous US torpedo boats were made of wood and included very complex construction methods. Used at sea in high speeds. Higgins boats were largely timber. De Haviland Vampire jets used wood construction.
The Mosquito was Not a heavy bomber.
Now the b 29 is a large airplane ✈️ in the world 🌎
The Air Force literally CHILLED/froze bats and put incendiary bombs on them, stacked them into racks and dropped them! And, the incendiary bats WORKED!
Continued: The plutonium bombs were VERY unreliable. Of the next 9 bombs fired after the war, 9nly 1 went nuclear. If the US tried dropping a 3rd and 4th bombs, one or both could have fizzled, making their threat questionable, and not a viable alternative to invasion. The US lucked out that Emperor Hirohito overruled his generals, and spoke directly to the people, undermining all authority for continued fighting by the army. Despite the racist hatred focused on the emperor, Macarthur recognized that without his actions, an awful invasion and guerilla war could have been the result.
Commercials ruined this. Every 2 minutes!@
All you need to do is have TH-cam premium and you will not see an ad ever again
Did you know... for the cost of a single hamburger meal at McDonalds (not per day, not per week... but once per MONTH)... you can watch stuff like this without having to suffer through even one single commercial. No... but you'd rather bitch about how it's "ruining" the documentaries you want to watch. Meanwhile, I haven't had to watch a single commercial in something like... 5 or 6 years (maybe even longer).
Yes it changed the war however several important factors missing here ,The atomic bomb wasn't ment for Japan . original Germany was the intended target yes the allies were seriously contemplating using it on Nazi Germany, in case Normandy was a disaster and the Allies pushed back into the sea, and the Russians capitulated or failed to Push the Germans back , Germany was a formidable force to be reckoned with , the US could not have took on the might of the German divisions, alone in a straight one on one fight without incurring huge casualties the US chiefs of staff knew this , that's why Germany was firstly chosen for the atomic bomb .it's waffen SS Panzer divisions were the best in the world the German luftwaffe still a pivotal force, and the battle of the Atlantic the kreigsmarine U-boats war was still largely undecided still causing havoc amongst British merchant shipping sinking huge tonnage of vital cargo basically the allies would have been destroyed had they landed on Normandy 1944 with German division still largely intact , thankfully the Soviets did the job of destroying large formations of German ground forces at huge cost to the Russians.
Japan wasn't even a secondary target, towards the end of 1944, the Japanese officials were putting out feelers of negotiations to the Soviets who as allies had enterted the Pacific theatre of war via china pushing back the Japanese land forces with considerable ease , causing great concerns amongst the Americans, special general MacArthur who was very anti Soviet,/Communist , as far as the US forces were concerned they didn't want Soviet forces any where near the last remainder of Japanese forces , Americans basically fought the Japanese with one hand singlehandedly, and didn't want interference from the Russians nor did they want the Soviets any say on the eventual surrender of Japanese forces ,and involvement in the occupation of the Japanese homeland , the Japanese officials /military were well aware of the country's military forces combat effectiveness with the US army airforce B 29 superfortress formations bombing Japanese city's, by now the Americans had pretty much abandoning high altitude bombing which was ironically designed to operate at was causing to little damage to Japanese vital infrastructure , to which the US army airforce chiefs brought in general Curtis LeMay the operational effectiveness he was achieving of the eighth air force over Germany, was primarily because the American air force had given up on pinpoint accuracy bombing with there high /tec wonder Norden bombsight which turned out to be useless and instead copied the British RAF bomber command tactics of mass area bombing , so when general Curtis LeMay took over bombing missions over Japan, he reverted to low-level bombing as RAF operated at usually 20.000ft or slightly under ,mass firebombing using incendiary bombs this tactic destroyed more acreage and people then both the atomic bombs combined because mostly Japanese cities were made out of wood , city after city were firebomb causing tremendous firestorm killing thousands and thousands like the British RAF did at Hamburg (code name operation Gomorrah) 1943,
In short the Americans were well aware of Japanese government officials dialoguing with Soviets officials about negotiating a conditional surrender, the Soviets acted in-between both US and Japanese , there was concerns from the Japanese side how there leader Emperor Hirohito (a living God in the eyes of the Japanese) would be treated they wanted immunity from any possible war crimes or the Emperor humiliated in front of his people , the American officials were playing hard-boiled and wanted unconditional surrender this back and forth came to naught, they wanted unconditional surrender they weren't moving of that demand, and this the Cruz of the matter,the Americans could have made that concession but didn't they stonewalled the Japanese why ? The reason why is ultimately the Americans wanted to see what a atomic bomb could do they spent millions and millions of tax payers dollars 5 years of development you think that It was going to be put back on the shelf ? The US military wanted to see this for real on a real live target Hiroshima was chosen 6th August 1945 followed by Nagasaki 110.000 Japanese instantly died , many more later to radiation poisoning ,and although the Japanese did surrender unconditional the Americans did give a concession granting the Japanese emperor immunity from an allied war crimes on the condition he declared himself a none living God to the Japanese people in a radio broadcasts and he declared the surrender and ordered all Japanese forces to surrender allied forces.
2 billion dollars, I think, on Manhattan.
Without the Americans help the war would have been lost .....
Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan for over a thousand years. It's primary industry was creating silk fabric. It was not an industrial or military center, and destroying it would only make it harder for Japan's people to accept surrender. Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah had worked for years in Japan in the 1920s, and was a professor of Japanese language and history, the ONLY expert on Japan in Congress. He spoke with Secretary of War Stimpson and persuaded him to take Kyoto off the target list.
Amazing plane ! Thank you America ⚔️
I really appreciate vids that are narrated by a human.
AI narration is just creepy.
And not always accurate as far as translations either. Captioning wasn't perfect on here either, but it was better than many.
Wow, it really has been a long time since Boeing has made something that didn’t fall out of the sky.
I always wondered why so much is made of the word "mokusatsu" and its interpretations. The US told Japan "Surrender or be destroyed.". Japan did not surrender. So it was destroyed. Story. End of.
During WW2 was the USA capable of in flight fueling? If not the B-29s would have to land to be refueled. Although in 1923 air planes in flight refueling was accomplished.
The B-29 had a ten ton bomb load not 2000 pounds as stated @ 2 and a half minutes. 😊
What's up with the long silences between statements? It makes this vid practically unwatchable
How ironic
39:15 ISTG, you fart in church ONE time…
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My dad fought from the Gilbert's, to Japan. His brother flew B24s out of Italy. They came home, started families. Then, when the time came, the sent me, & my cousin off to Nam with a pat on the back. You'd think they would know better.
WHY am I getting censored for posting about Bat Bombs?
It's the B word mate. Try to put it in a sentence and put the word "aircraft" immediately after it.
We did studied the era (and then some well before) and knew what went on. The whole Japanese culture were skewed by a victory where nature did much of the hard work for them. They missed the harsh lessons Europeans received from the Mongols. From that, came doctrines like Bushido codes which basically said their enemies were basically worthless (their own civilians and low ranks were as well ) , never did they thought one day, they would be the defeated ones. I doubt even WW2 and the two nukes are enough to change their culture, one sign is they tried to change history in text books and they have not apologized. Truman made the correct decision, not bad for a lowly salesman turned president. He cared more about his soldiers as any commanders should. He know an invasion would mean a fight to the death for many and if he had to nuke them to avoid it, so be it. Those are very weak nukes, by today's standards. Too bad the Americans ran out of bomb grade materials, for they should have dropped 10 more, they were so eager to die for their emperor they should not have been denied the chance to do so.
If China ever have to invade Japan again, they would have better weather forecasts and better ships. The invasion force would be lightly armed only ( small arms), for no one would want their own troops to be in a fight to the death. The islands would be sterilized well before the invasion with enhanced radiation weapons. We suspect the Japanese people came from the first Chinese emperor who sent 300 pairs of people there to look for medicine so he can live forever in about 220 BC, China can always send another 300 pairs again.
The behaviour of the Japanese Army was despicable, if you were caught by them your chances of survival were very low. What they did to other humans, civilian or military, was attrocious. Not enough is reported about their behaviour during the war. For one example it is stated that the number of railway sleepers on the Burma railway equals the number of prisoners who died making it, literally worked to death. I doubt any American or British forces felt sympathy for the victims.
U.S did a lot to make Japan surrender, but Japan didn't want to surrender untill they realized the Soviet Union was steamrolling them out of Manchuria, thinking the Soviets could eventually enter Japan, they rather wanted the U.S to enter Japan instead of the Soviets
things look kind of sad today with Russias good buddy Belisarius deploying Russian nukes in their country
Heroic music for massmurder by Air!!!
You must be confused. They did stop the mass murderers. It seems you are not aware that Japan murdered millions upon millions of innocent civilians, also using methods almost identical to Nazi Germany.
They would have killed millions more if they had not be finally stopped.
I thought the same, emotional music 🎶
Idiot.
@@Dronescapes Your Source: trust me
@@yoseipilot my source: history, which includes testimony from people that participated in those atrocities.
What are you exactly trying to deny: the holocaust perhaps, the asian holocaust, the Japanese torture camps? Please be more specific, and as detailed as possible, rather than the usual bull**** one line comment.
Are you serioulsly doubting what Japan and Germany did, or are you just trolling? Either way, you should be ashemed for offending the memory of millions of innocent victims.
We know that unlike Germany, Japan's policy has been to bury the memory of the atrocities the committed. We also know that for some reason they were allowed to get away with that, probably/most likely for political reasons, but that does not condone, and never will, their actions, which you can learn from history books, and not from the blog of a denier, or whereever you get your fantasy history from
The Americans can make some absolutely amazing war machines