Bud Miller Bombing

Therefore, was accepted into the Air Force academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado in which he excelled from the start. He was selected as one out of a dozen other freshman trainees to train fly gliders. (A skill that very well may have come in handy decades later when his engines failed) By the end of that year, he had been chosen as an instructor pilot. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter pilot for seven years in the time of 1973 to 1980. He flew Vietnam-era F-4 Phantom II jets. He was a training officer and flight leader, he also acquired the rank of captain whilst he was training at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. He was a commander in red flag exercises. (Red Flag exercises are a form of training where pilots receive advanced aerial combat training.) He also took part in the aircraft accident investigation

     In January 1973 his unit was sent back to Fort Knox, KY and with the move, his military career seem to disappear. Also with the move, he had a spiritual rebirth, and began attending services at Beth Haven Baptist Church in Louisville and soon changed from a Jew to a Christian.

From 1942 to 1944, Robinson served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He attended boot camp at Fort Hood in Texas,

When the Atomic Bomb exploded over the city of Hiroshima, the people who experienced it were not expecting it to occur the way it did. We were given an insight of the lives of several characters on that fateful morning in August in 1945. Neighboring towns had all been bombarded by American B-29 raids, but so far Hiroshima had been spared and rumors spread that “something special” was in store for them. Every plane that flew overhead was a considered a threat and would set off the air raid warning, consequently that morning people even though the siren sounded earlier people were either going about their everyday routines or preparing for the worst. The people of Hiroshima were completely confused when the atomic bomb was dropped over their city because they were all expecting a warning of some kind, either from the U.S or the air-raid sirens but there was nothing heard before the bomb was dropped. Hersey describes it as a “noiseless flash,” which conjures the image of silence and a startlingly bright light as total buildings were decimated. With the dropping of the Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima, we ushered in a new age of

After his basic officer training at Fort Benning, Georgia, followed by training at Airborne School, Cavazos deployed to Korea with the 65th Infantry Division where he served as a platoon leader. As everybody knows, the 65th Infantry Division also called the Borinqueneers suffered a lot of discrimination,

George completed his basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California. He later transferred to Headquarters and Service Company, 2d Battalion, Camp Elliott, San Diego, California, in September 1942. When he arrived he was promoted to private first class and later advanced to corporal.

He attended West Point and graduated from there in 1915. He served in a variety of training duties during World War I. He was promoted to Promoted Major in 1920.(Dupuy, Johnson, Bongard 236) He graduated from the top of his class at the Command and General Staff School. He served under General Douglas McArthur in the office of the chief of staff in the Philippines. He was promoted to Major General in December of 1944. He was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces during D-Day in 1944. He commanded until the

“The bombing that night began with a shower of slow-burning incendiaries”- Betty Popkiss as she remembers the horrors that awaited her, that first night.

Sergeant Mitchell W. Stout was born on February 24, 1950 in Knoxville, Tennessee to Jack Stout and Faye Thomas. Stout was raised in Lenoir City, a small town included in the Knoxville Metropolitan Area in the state's eastern region. As a child Stout attended Highland Park Elementary School. As a child he was known to be an enthusiastic student that was always smiling and willing to help in any way possible said his 6th grade teacher (1963), Mary Britten Lynch. At the age of 17, Stout enlisted into the U.S. Army as a private in Raleigh, North Carolina (his home of record) as. He went through paratrooper school and got his wings before the Army discovered that Stout was only 17 years of age when he had enlisted, leading to the Army discharging him. At the time of discharge in 1968, Stout was then 18 and re-enlisted where he was then stationed in Texas and shortly after

The “bikko”, as the Japanese have nicknamed America’s most powerful aircraft, drops B-29 bombs on Tokyo. The residents of Tokyo race for shelter. These American aircrafts

From Kwajalein Atoll where he was based with the 7th Air Force, he flew his first mission on April 17, 1944. This mission, to bomb the Japanese island of Saipan, would be one he would never forget. It was a combined operation of army and navy units flying B-24s and its navy version, PB4Ys. Returning from the target, Julio’s plane begin “escort- ing” a damaged navy bomber, and for the next 25 minutes, they man- aged to repel a swarm of enemy fighters attacking the two stragglers. As the ball turret gunner, Sgt Diaz shared credit for shooting down a Zero and credited with a probable for another. After a long flight, the navy plane was able to return to its base but the army plane was not so fortu- nate. Suffering heavy damage and running out of fuel, they were forced to ditch in rough seas about 280 miles short of their base.

After another two days by train he arrived in Poland to his pilot school. Since he was just a recruit his job was just to stand guard duty in the airfield for the first 6 months and set off the alarms at the sound of incoming allied aircraft. He claims he mostly just sat around and ate about two pounds of grapes a day since his post was surrounded by grape fields.

Charles Livingston Kelly was born on April 10, 1925 in a small Georgia town. He first decided to join the Army when he was just 15 years old. He ran away from home and lied about his age so he could fight in Europe. He was wounded in Europe and after returning from the war he finished school, to include college. After college he worked as a high school principal. Kelly’s first love was always the Army though and he enlisted in the Army and eventually became a commissioned officer. Kelly went on to attend flight school in Fort Sill, Oklahoma and graduated in 1954.

 In 1957 he found a job at Avondale ship yard as a welder, until he was drafted by Uncle Sam to Germany in 1958 where he remained for two years. The

“All I saw was a flash and my body get warm and then I saw everything flying around,” according to a survivor of the the atomic bomb, Fat Man, in in the city of Nagasaki. In this essay I will provide information over Fat Man’s composition, logistics, and its affect on Nagasaki. Fat Man was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945, three days after Little Boy had bombed Hiroshima, and Fat Man detonated, flashing the life out of 40,000 citizens and injuring 25,000, destroying a military base, and blowing up its industrial section. Japan was forced to surrender two days after the bombing for they had feared more bombs were headed their way. Fat Man was the second Nuclear weapon to ever be used in war and it is still debated to this day whether or not the bombing of Nagasaki by Fat man was justified.