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The ship was sank by a Japanese torpedo after the ship delivered parts for the “Little Boy,” the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima seven days later.

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Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, said this trip “will shine a spotlight on the tremendous and devastating human toll of war.”

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The last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, the WWII plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died in Georgia of natural causes Monday. Theodore “Dutch” VanKirk was a navigator aboard the B-29 Superfortress as it made its historical voyage over Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945. He was 23-years-old at the time and helped […]

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North Carolina was nearly obliterated by an atomic bomb that was 260 times more powerful than the destructive device detonated over Hiroshima. A top-secret document from the 1960’s has finally been declassified for the first time, and it’s contents brought to light through the Freedom of Information Act. The information found within the text is […]

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