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On August 6, 1945, a solitary B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay, (after the Captain’s mother), took off from North Field, Timian, and after a 6 hour flight, the crew dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. It was the only timeContinue reading “The Peacemaker”