VERY RARE & SCARCE (Part of my 20+ Years of collecting America’s Atomic Bomb Missions Autographs) BEAUTIFUL "SEABEES" POSTAL COVER Signed by 7 Atomic Bomb Missions “On-Board” Crewmembers ~ (Hiroshima, Japan 8/6/1945 “Enola Gay” B-29 and Nagasaki, Japan 8/9/1945 “Bocks Car” B-29) ~ This POSTAL COVER (4"x6") is Hand-Signed (Autographed) by:
Enola Gay – Paul Tibbets (Commander and Pilot)
Enola Gay – Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk (Navigator)
Enola Gay – Richard “Junior” Nelson (Radio-Operator)
Enola Gay – Morris “Dick” Jeppson (Atomic Bomb Officer)
Bock’s Car – Charles Sweeney (Commander and Pilot)
Bock’s Car – Fred Olivi (Co-Pilot)
Bock’s Car – Fred Ashworth NAVY (Atomic Bomb Officer)
All have passed away. I had the privilege of knowing these men over a 20+ year period. “Gentlemen…..One & All"
At this time in my life I am disposing my personal autograph collections. These all are Unique “One-Of-A-Kind” items that I personally had autographed by the crewmen.
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America’s Atomic Bomb Missions - August 1945 - Over Japan
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.
For six months before the atomic bombings, the United States intensely fire-bombed 67 Japanese cities. Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945. The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum. By executive order of President Harry S. Truman, the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of "Fat Man" over Nagasaki on August 9.
Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. The Hiroshima prefectural health department estimates that, of the people who died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and 10% from other causes. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. In a U.S. estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15–20% died from radiation sickness, 20–30% from flash burns, and 50–60% from other injuries, compounded by illness. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians.
Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, officially ending the Pacific War and therefore World War II, as Germany had already signed its Instrument of Surrender on May 7, ending the war in Europe. The bombings led, in part, to post-war Japan's adopting Three Non-Nuclear Principles, forbidding the nation from nuclear armament. The role of the bombings in Japan's surrender and the U.S.'s ethical justification for them, as well as their strategic importance, is still debated.