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Today is August 4th, and two days ago, Halsey received an order from Vice Admiral Spruance from Admiral Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Fleet, from Guam, which demanded that Halsey's Task Force 32 advance to the ocean 200 nautical miles from Tokyo Bay, and that they should not come within 200 nautical miles of the coastline, not shell or bombard the mainland, and not take the initiative to fight. Of course, when encountering an enemy attack, you can return fire, but you must not chase and destroy the fleeing enemy. The most strange thing about the order was that the fleet had to send four fighters to escort a "B-29" on both the 4th and 5th to complete the "reconnaissance" mission on the mainland.

This task is even more strange, and it even stipulates that the escort planes must be led by Colonel Kospel, the colonel of naval aviation and the flight commander of the "Enterprise," and that the planes must fly at an altitude of no less than 10,000 meters, and that they must do their best to avoid fighting the planes, and that the safety of the reconnaissance planes must be ensured first of all under any circumstances. Wait a minute. The combat mission directives sent from the Pacific Fleet Command have never been so detailed and specific, and the Pacific Fleet Command should be in charge of things at the strategic level, and these tactical matters, even if they are so subtle, are simply the business of the battlefield commander. Is a "B-29" bomber so important? Even if a large group of planes attacked Tokyo, they had never asked for naval fighter jets to escort them! Both Lieutenant General Spruance and Lieutenant General Halsey were full of suspicions that something extraordinary would happen, and they did not know what it was. But an order is an order, and it is a soldier's duty to carry out orders in an orderly manner, and there may be some things that they should not know, so they don't have to bother guessing and estimating, and they just need to carry out orders seriously. In the early morning of 3 August, Halsey and the 32nd Task Force left the waters of Okinawa and headed northward in the direction of the mainland, and at 3 a.m. on the 4th, the fleet arrived at the designated position and began to sail in a garden circle.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, the "Enterprise" sailed into the wind. Two F6F Vixen fighters flew off the deck one after the other, leaping into the blue sky. Liu Xirui flew in front with the plane, and behind was Major Benz Jr.'s No. 15 plane. Liu Xirui looked to the side, and the two fighter planes that had taken off from the "Hancock" were climbing high on one side and leaning towards them on the other. This is the plane of Major Festin and his wingman, Captain Slacott. Liu Xirui swung his wings, and the four planes formed a formation, and after circling the small group over the fleet, they flew south while rising, and disappeared from the observer's field of vision after a while.

At 8:06 a.m., at an altitude of about 10,000 nautical miles from the 32nd Task Force, Liu Xirui saw a lone "B-29" Super Flying Fortress bomber flying from south-east. Liu Xirui led three fighters to quickly approach, and the pilots of the "B-29" also spotted the four escort fighters, and the navigation lights on both wings of the bombers kept flashing to show welcome. Liu Xirui issued an order, and according to the pre-arrangement, Major Festin and Captain Slacott grabbed the top of the tail of the "B-29" to cover the rear upper part of the bomber, which was extremely vulnerable, while Liu Xirui took Little Benz to open the way in front of the bomber. A group of five planes flew northward, towards the mainland.

From time to time, little Benz turned his head to glance at the "B-29" in the right rear, and kept muttering in his heart:

"! What a broken plane! There is also a dead man's skull drawn, look at its bear-like appearance, and its head is full of pie! Is it worth a colonel, two majors, a captain to escort it? We are all the elite of naval aviation! Is it more important than us? What a big guy is sitting on it! No! Wrong! This rotten plane will not land on the ground of the earth, it must have some kind of special mission! Whatever it is! Escort escort, but unfortunately can't fight with Yue himself, and even said that he can't engage in battle when he encounters his broken plane, as long as he covers this stupid thing to escape back. Alas! It's boring! ”

Little Benz didn't understand, in fact, not only him, the little major, but even the senior generals such as Vice Admiral Spruance, who commanded the 5th Task Force, and Vice Admiral Halsey, the commander of the 32nd Task Force, did not know what task they were performing.

In the autumn of 1944, the Americans, while working on the atomic bomb, were also considering the means of delivery for the atomic bomb drop. Obviously, atomic bombs cannot be launched from the cannons of warships, so the only delivery vehicle that can be used is a strategic bomber like the "B-29". As a result, a new air force was born, the 20th Mixed Group of the 509th Army Air Force. When the air group was first established, there were only 12 "B-29" bombers and only 400 personnel. It is based at Wendover Air Force Base in Salt Lake City. This brigade did not have too many aircraft and personnel and did not attract attention. Its captain was 27-year-old Colonel Paul, a young Army Colonel. Ttilz. This colonel was originally in Lee. The flight commander of any brigade of General Mel's Strategic Bombing Command, who has nearly 2,000 hours of flight time, has led his team to bomb Tokyo nine times, and each time he was able to complete the mission and return safely, the most dangerous one was when he just flew over the target, and there was a problem with one engine, and Colonel Tiltz flew with one engine, not only completing the attack on the target, but also returning home without danger and landing smoothly. This is a young officer with a lot of flying experience and command ability. In fact, the pilots and crews of the 509 Brigade who were transferred to the 509 Brigade have performed very well in the European and Pacific theaters, and these officers and men have experienced a hundred battles, and all of them have extraordinary skills and can be called elites. But the 509 Brigade is equipped with brand-new, new "B-29" aircraft that have just come off the production line, and the number of aircraft and personnel is constantly increasing. By the time of the special mission in August 1945, the group had 46 bombers and more than 1,500 personnel, which in any case exceeded the normal size of a flying group. The base was also moved to Tinian Island in the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Unlike the airfields on Guam and Saipan, the secrecy and security measures at this base are extraordinary: the airfield is completely enclosed with barbed wire, a battalion of army officers and men serves as guards, light and heavy machine-gun fire points are scattered around the airport, and special passes are required to enter and exit, even a general cannot enter without a pass. All personnel in the base are forbidden to have contact with the outside world, and the trust is to be strictly checked. At the gate of this airport hangs a large wooden sign that reads intimidatingly:

"When you leave here, you have to leave everything you see and hear here!"

The 509 Mixed Brigade has not participated in any combat since the day it was formed, and this group has only two tasks, one is to modify the "B-29" aircraft, these modifications include reducing the weight of the aircraft, improving the working condition of the engines, trying to keep the engines running at full load for a long time without failure, modifying the magazine, and so on. Therefore, it is not surprising that engineering and technical personnel account for more than half of the total number of people in this brigade. The second is to fly and train with modified aircraft, which is simply too pediatric for these flight crews, and some pilots even think that this is a kind of distrust and insult to them. They had nothing to do but watch as the huge fleet of the same type of planes that had taken off from other airfields flew triumphantly overhead and pounced on Tokyo, only occasionally they would be allowed to fly in groups of three to drop a bomb on a certain part of their own territory, but the distance would not be too far, at most Okinawa or something, and they were strictly forbidden to fly over the mainland of the city, and not anywhere else.

The pilots of this group were very angry, because they were often ridiculed by their counterparts from other units on the island, calling them "flying in a safe", when in fact it was only their commander, Paul. Colonel Tiltz knew what their real mission was, but he couldn't tell his men about the secrecy he could.

This small group of five planes, four large and four small, flew northward, and the altitude was always maintained at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters. Liu Xirui knew that what they were escorting was a meteorological reconnaissance plane, and that the Americans had already locked on the target of the attack with a 'super bomb,' which was to make preliminary preparations for dropping the first atomic bomb in the history of the world.

The group flew for more than an hour, and the coastline of Honshu Island appeared on the horizon of the sea. At 9:25 a.m., the group flew over Hiroshima, which made a small turn to the right and continued to fly forward, and 20 minutes later came to the first target, Hiroshima. There were only a few faint white clouds floating over Hiroshima, and the visibility was good, and the city was unobstructed under the fuselage. No planes took off to meet them, no anti-aircraft artillery fire was fired at them, and they didn't even hear the sound of air defense sirens. Probably the frequent sortie of Lee. General Mel's large group of planes has already been blown up numbly, and he is not too lazy to care about this small group of planes that appeared in the sky. The weather plane did not stop long, circled over Hiroshima twice, then turned east and flew towards the next target. The group spent a total of 1 hour and 16 minutes, and then flew to Nagate, Kokura, and Niigata, and finally passed over Tokyo, which had been burned to the ground, and began to return home.

"What is this?"

Little Benz snorted in the cockpit and whispered:

"It's hard to get here, fuck it! Let's not talk about the fact that we don't have bombs, didn't this damn "big stupid cow" bring a bomb either? What is it for? Shall we go shopping with it? The little devils are not planted either! Not even a single plane was dispatched. Is this a war? Didn't fire a shot, what kind of mission is this? ”

Flying over the coastline again, little Benz saw several Yamaben naval patrol boats anchored in a small harbor off the coast under his wings, and he tried his best to resist the urge to rush down and strafe them. If it weren't for the cockpit, he really had to spit hard, and he had no choice but to return!

In July 1945, three months after President Roosevelt's death, the new President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, was attending a meeting of the heads of state of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in Potsdam, Germany. In fact, it took place in the beautiful town of Babelsberg on the outskirts of Potsdam. Surrounded by woods and almost completely undevastated by the war, this town is a frequent activity of the German film industry and is famous as a summer resort. The meeting of the big men will certainly have to be held in a high-ranking place, and a good environment will make these leaders who can decide the fate of the world happy, and when they are happy, the talks will be much easier, and it will not be difficult to reach some kind of agreement. This is the positive effect of the 'environmental factor'. Among those who attended the meeting were Mr. Churchill, the prime minister of the British Empire, who looked very gentlemanly on the outside but was beaten by the Germans, who had to rely on the Americans to put down his head, and who was about to be ousted by the Labour Party, who was about to be ousted by the Labour Party. The pretentious, triumphant, self-conscious, insidious and cunning son of a blacksmith who had switched to smoking cigars due to a heart attack, the Soviet scholar Stalin; Then there is the new President of the United States, Truman, who was turned a regular due to the death of President Roosevelt.

The meeting mainly discussed the issue of fighting against the Chinese government. I don't know why? China, a Far Eastern country that had fought tenaciously with the other member state of the war, did not attend the meeting. Perhaps these bigwigs have overlooked too many things, or they are out of security considerations, because the Chinese do not have absolute air supremacy over China, and if Chairman Chiang's plane is unfortunately "invited" to the ground by himself, it will be a big trouble. Moreover, it is better to carry some things behind the Chinese's back, because in exchange for the Soviets declaring war on Yue and quickly sending troops, then Outer Mongolia and Dalian Port must give full consideration to the opinions of the Soviets.

In the early morning of July 24, President Truman learned that the "Thin Man" had successfully tested in the Alamogordo Desert. And the other two atomic bombs are ready for use by August 10 at the latest. And at lunchtime, he received a report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which, in addition to a detailed report on the tests, recommended that the Soviets be urged to send troops as soon as possible in order to force him to surrender, a suggestion that reflected that the military was not entirely comfortable with the atomic bomb, a superweapon. But the new Secretary of State Berners, who shared Churchill's belief that the atomic bomb would end the war, that there was no need for the Soviets to be involved, and that the Soviet Union's participation in the war would complicate the post-war handling of Asian problems.

Truman was a little undecided, and in his heart he was more inclined to the recommendations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He didn't know much about the Manhattan Project, and even less about the atomic bomb. He decided to exchange views with the British Prime Minister. But at this time, Qiu Fatzi was worried that the Labour Party was going to oust him from power! That has the kung fu to get in the way. The fat man irresponsibly gave President Truman a bad idea, and he asked the President of the United States to tell Stalin about this affair and see how the famous scholar reacted before deciding. President Truman foolishly thought this was a good idea, and after dinner that day, Truman asked Stalin for a walk, and he mentioned "in passing" that the United States had now developed a "new weapon of extraordinary destructive power," but avoided the words "nuclear" and "atomic." The leader of the Soviet Union [***] casually replied that he was also glad to hear the news and hoped that the Americans would use it to deal with him well.

Stalin's deception gave him the upper hand, and the generalissimo, well aware of the power of the atomic bomb, had already begun to develop such a superweapon in the Soviet Union, but it was still in its infancy, and it was too far behind the Americans. As soon as the Americans used this weapon in their warfare, it was inevitable that they would surrender. There was no need for the Soviet Union to declare war and send troops to it, and the war would be over. The interests of the Soviet Union in the Far East would be greatly damaged, and the Mongolian People's Republic and the port of Dalian would all be lost. If this is the case, the United States and Britain will never ask the Soviet Union to sign the "Potsdam Proclamation" and the "Potsdam Declaration." This will be in vain. Stalin was shocked but remained silent. This incomparably cunning guy managed to fool his allies Truman and Churchill. On July 26, the heads of state of the three countries signed the "Potsdam Proclamation" and the "Potsdam Declaration," and the Chinese government subsequently agreed to these two documents and made them sign into effect. The Soviets became the biggest winners.

In fact, the Soviets moved fast enough, and just two hours after President Truman told Stalin about the "big bomb", the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, Alexei Brown. General Antonov declared to the outside world that "the Soviet Red Army has been assembled in the Far East, and as soon as the results of the meeting with the Chinese delegates are not reached, the Soviet army will immediately start a military operation." The meeting is not currently underway", which was a full month ahead of Stalin's emphasis that Soviet troops should be transferred from the Western Front to the Eastern Front and ready for war by the end of August.

In 1946, Alexander, a military correspondent in the Soviet Union for the newspaper "The Weekly" in London. Wu Si, somehow dug up this inside information. He asked Molotov, who was present at the time, if US President Harry S. Truman had told the Soviets about the possession of the atomic bomb at the Potsdam Conference. Molotov was very surprised, he thought for a moment and replied that this is a very delicate question, and the real answer can be said to be told, or it can be said that it is not told. President Truman was talking about a superbomb, a bomb that had never been seen before, but he didn't use the word "atom."

On August 4, 1945, on the same day that Liu Xirui led the group to escort the "B-29", the heavy cruiser "Indianapolis" sailed to Tinian Island in the Mariana Islands. Numerous patrol boats immediately surrounded the ship and quickly set up a cordon. Senior generals from all branches of the military flocked to the ship to see the special cargo it carried, an 18-inch diameter and 2-inch tall canister, the heart of the first atomic bomb to be put into combat use. It weighs several hundred pounds and contains a similar derivative of uranium metal, U235, with a thick lead shell on the outside. But then there was a problem, and the lifting rope was 6 feet shorter and could not be unloaded, which caused a burst of laughter. The problem was finally solved, the heart of the atomic bomb was safely ashore, and the USS Indianapolis completed its mission.

However, the heavy cruiser, which had carried superweapons, was unlucky when it returned home, and on 8 August, the "Indianapolis" was discovered by the military ship "Yiyi 58". After the submarine grabbed the position, the captain Hashimoto ordered to shoot three torpedoes at the heavy cruiser in one go. The torpedoes all hit, and in a violent explosion, the cruiser's power system was destroyed, the tail propeller was blown off, and a crack 2 meters long and about 10 inches wide was torn off the left side of the ship, just below the waterline. The sea rushed in, and the warship sank. Incredibly, there were no lifeboats on this heavy cruiser, only life rafts. For up to 1 week after that, people didn't know where the warship went? As a result, no one came to search for the victims who were floating on the sea, so that only 316 of the ship's 1,196 officers and men survived. This is the most controversial shipwreck in the history of the U.S. Navy.

On the same day, the newly appointed commander of the US Strategic Air Force, Karl Murphy. General Spatz gave the order to drop the first atomic bomb.

At the same time, Liu Xirui, who was on the "Enterprise", received an encrypted order for the second escort. He gloated in his heart:

"! It's a big game! Hundreds of thousands of Japanese people will be played to death! Although it was their own initiative, there was always a bit of a wife...... That's a little bit of that! But it's not my fault, little Ben! You're sad! ”

The preparations for the first atomic bomb have been completed, the arrow has been wound, the bow has been drawn, and as soon as the weather permits, the superbomb will fall on his head. Although he tried to negotiate an end to the war with the Americans through the Soviets, the Soviets were not enthusiastic about this, and the Americans, instead of seeking peace with the intention of seeking peace, were determined to take what they thought were decisive measures to end the war, and at the same time they were deeply embarrassed by the shame of their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The way to pay for the numerous atrocities committed by Ben throughout the war in Asia and the Pacific was by dropping the atomic bomb.

On August 5, William, a naval ordnance expert in charge of loading the atomic bomb on an aircraft. Colonel Parsons said to General Farrell, who oversaw the work:

"This won't work! If the plane carrying the atomic bomb does not take off smoothly, the entire island of Tinian will be blown up, and it will also affect Saipan and Guam, which will be a disaster! ”

There's a reason Colonel Parsons said this, and his fears were justified after he had witnessed four "B-29" Super Fortresses crash during takeoff in a month.

Brigadier General Farrell said with a bitter face: "Do you have any other way?" I'm afraid we can only pray to God not to let this happen! ”

"Oh! We can equip the bomb in the air after the plane takes off, so we don't have to worry about that happening. The colonel replied:

"Hmmm! That's a good idea, but have you ever planted a bomb under such a bar? ”

"No, but I still have a day to practice."

"Good! Then start practicing! May God bless you! ”

In the afternoon, the first atomic bomb in human history was delivered by forklift from an air-conditioned warehouse to a "B-29" bomber in the bright sun. The plane called "Enola. Guy", the plane was the landline of Colonel Tibbetts, the 27-year-old pilot who named the plane after his mother. Colonel Parsons plunged headlong into the hot bomb bay and began to practice assembling the super bomb over and over again. Until he thought he was satisfied, but his hands were bloody.

At 10 p.m., Colonel Tibbetts summoned six of his crew members into the garden-shaped room of the flight standby room, and said with a calm face and straight to the point:

"We're going to go on a mission tonight and we'll see how effective our long training is tonight. It's a dangerous mission, you've known it for a long time, and I'm glad no one opted out! We are going to make history, we dropped this bomb equivalent to 20,000 tons of explosives, or even more, because the bomb is so powerful that if the method of dropping ordinary bombs will never work, we will use a completely new tactic. We will"

Next, the colonel took the trouble to explain to his subordinates how to throw this super bomb, even the smallest details. He told the crew that the three weather observation planes would take off first, and that the three planes would fly over the three targets they had selected, and that their planes would fly to the best targets for the weather bar. The confluence point is over the ocean 200 nautical miles from the coastline of the homeland. And after them, 2 more "B-29s" with various scientific instruments on board set off later. Each member of the crew was then given a pair of sunglasses, which was intended to prevent the bright light from the bomb from exploding to damage their eyes. At midnight, the pilots on this remarkable mission reverently listened to the 27-year-old priest William. Downey's prayer for them:

"O merciful Lord! We pray to you that the war will end and peace will come to the world! My God! Please bless the children who flew tonight and return safe and sound! ”

At 1:38 a.m., three meteorological reconnaissance planes dispatched in advance roared into the night sky. In order to record this history-making moment, a large number of photojournalists and newspaper reporters summoned by the military surrounded the "Enola. Guy", the magnesium light kept flashing. "Enola. Gay "slowly glided toward the runway, and Brigadier General Farrell and a large staff officer stood on the control tower north of the airport, watching the B-29 take off intently. The plane gradually accelerated, taxiing faster and faster, but General Farrell always felt that the plane was running too slowly. In fact, the Flying Fortress has reached 180 miles per hour, but it still needs to continue to accelerate due to the extra load. Those who watched it take off seemed to think that it couldn't fly, and when they thought of the "B-29" planes crashing quite frequently during takeoff, everyone sweated for Colonel Tibbetts and wanted to lift it into the air himself.

Tibbetts pulled down all the oil valves, and the engine roared, but the co-pilot, Robert Brown, pulled down all the oil valves, and the engine roared. Lewis thinks that the oil consumed is too much, and there is no need to do it! He began to pressurize the wheels, and as the wide, gray coral-stone runway was nearing its end, the heavy bomber finally lifted its nose and burst into the dark night sky. All the hearts that were hanging back into their stomachs fell back into their stomachs. Brigadier General Farrell said to one of the staff officers beside him:

"I've never seen a plane take off on such a long runway and in such a long time, and I thought Tibbetts would never want to fly it!"

At 2:45 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber, the carrier of the world's first atomic bomb, roared northward toward the mainland, which was a memorable moment.

"Enola. Guy "climbed to an altitude of 5,000 meters and continued to slowly rise while flying north quickly, and Colonel Parsons and his assistant, Captain Jackson, got headlong into the bomb magazine and began assembling the atomic bomb. The work took about half an hour, and it was not until they carefully attached the explosive fuse to the tail of the bomb and replaced a green electrical plug with a red one. Colonel Parsons was so tired that when he crawled back to the front compartment along the 12-meter-long narrow passage to rest for a while, the young sergeant George Bush, the belly shooter. Cullen asked:

"School, are we going to split the atom?"

The colonel patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother, you guessed right! ”

The bombed-out island of Okinawa appeared in the morning light, and the American warships were clinging to the muran-colored sea like countless ants. Tibbetts pushes the control valve, "Enola. Guy rose to an altitude of 10,000 meters. It was 4:52 a.m. on August 6. After about 30 minutes of further flight, Colonel Tibbetts saw four black dots appear in front of his plane to the right, and the black dots were getting closer, and the four naval fighters escorting the escort joined them. The colonel breathed a sigh of relief, and a voice came over the radio:

"Lan No. 1, Lan No. 1, I'm Red No. 1, and now we're in charge of your safety! I'm Captain Kospel, hear it, please answer! ”

Tibbetts was taken aback, "Colonel Liu! ”

The Chinese are also involved in this plan, and the Chinese are obviously willing to pay for it! The first ace pilot of the Chinese daimyo Dingding personally gave the "Enola. Guy: "Escort, which really flattered Tibbetts. He immediately turned on the intercom and replied:

"This is Lan No. 1, and now the situation is normal, I am Colonel Tibbetts, thank you for escorting us personally, Colonel Liu!"

If Colonel Tibbetts had known that Liu Xirui had received another task on the escort order, he would have been absolutely not happy, and he would definitely not have thanked these four Navy F6F "Vixen" fighters, but would have doubled his vigilance against them. Another of Liu's tasks is:

"When a large number of enemy planes attacked and the situation was critical, Colonel Liu had the responsibility to personally shoot down this 'B-29' bomber on a special mission, and make sure it crashed on the mainland, which is a special secret."

Liu Xirui gave a loud order into the microphone, and the order was for the three fighters he led. But since the communication channel is the same, in "Enola. The entire crew of the B-29 on the "Guy" can also be heard:

"Attention everyone! Attention to each machine! This is the escort command plane, as soon as you get close to this territory, please turn on the call recorder, all conversations must be recorded, please carry out the order! This is to write history, so please pay attention to what you say! We are covering an atomic bomber, so be careful! ”

Little Benz and Festin did not know what an atomic bomb was at all, they had never heard of the word "atom", and the word "atom" could not help but give them the creeps, and these 4 escort planes immediately approached the "B-29" in the air at 10,000 meters and quickly occupied the cover space.

The small group followed the route taken by the weather planes 30 minutes earlier and headed for the first target, the city of Hiroshima, where the atomic bomb would be dropped first, if the Hiroshima weather regulations permitted. If not, they will fly to Ogura or Nagagata instead. Anyway, this super bomb has to be dropped, even if it is thrown indiscriminately on any piece of land in the city. No one dares to return with this big guy, let alone land with it, don't even think about it! Even though it's very expensive to build.

Hiroshima is the 8th largest city in Hiroshima. Nearly 400,000 people live in the city, and about 120,000 have been evacuated from the city due to the approaching war on the mainland and the continuous air raids by US planes. The city was barely damaged by the fire, and the focus of the American bombing was on Tokyo, so bombs rarely frequented the area. This is the headquarters of the Second Army and an important military port. But the reason why he himself lives here naively thinks that his city will not be bombed by the Americans is naïve, ridiculous, wishful thinking, and ridiculous. They believe that many of the citizens of Hiroshima have relatives in the United States, and that the city is more beautiful than Tokyo, and that the Americans may well have deliberately preserved it as a post-war residential area.

Truman's mother used to live here, and there were some American prisoners of war in the city, and the Americans were not going to bomb Hiroshima on a large scale. Two days earlier, American planes had dropped nearly 1 million leaflets from the air, warning that if Ben refused to accept the Potsdam Proclamation and was willing to surrender without order, the city would be destroyed, like any other city.

Almost all the residents of Hiroshima did not take this seriously, believing that this was just another false intimidation by the Americans!

At 7:09 a.m., an air raid siren sounded in Hiroshima, and the sirens sounded for more than a minute. But the citizens of Hiroshima were largely unmoved, for the air raid sirens had sounded at least three times since midnight, but not even half a bomb had fallen from the sky. "The wolf is coming!" It is only natural that people will stop believing the lies of the story.

Liu Xirui led the escort group to cover the "Enola. At 7:25 a.m., the group received a report from a meteorological reconnaissance plane, the pilot of the meteorological reconnaissance plane, Claude. The telegram sent back by Major Isserly was:

"Low clouds, 1 to 3/10ths, mid-altitude also 1 to 3/10ths, it is advisable to bomb the first target."

Liu Xirui and Colonel Tibbetts on the bomber both received this weather telegram, and Tibbetts called:

"Red 1, Red 1, we're going to target 1!"

Liu Xirui immediately replied:

"Red 1 understands, red 1 understands!"

At 7:50 a.m., the group flew to Shikoku Island, and beyond Shikoku Island was Honshu Island, and Hiroshima was not far away. The crews of the bombers began to put on body armor, turned off the radar and friend or foe identification devices, and Colonel Tibbetts changed the plane to automatic operation.

At 8:05 a.m., through the gap between the two large clouds, Liu Xirui saw a large city in the area below, which was Hiroshima, which was the first target of the atomic bomb. The group circled around Hiroshima, and it was 8:09 a.m. on the 6th.

"I'm about to start dropping bombs, and I hope there's nothing wrong with this bomber, or I'll have to shoot it down myself." The atomic bomb had to explode on the mainland, and if the bomber couldn't drop it, the only way to do that would be to destroy the plane and blow it up! This is the only way to do it! Alas! There is always a sense of guilt for killing one's own person, and even though it is an order, it is always unpleasant. Fortunately, the crew is all Americans, if it is Chinese, his mother! I really can't do it! But I'm sure the atomic bomb will be dropped! ”

At this time, another "B-29" plane also rumbled in, which was the "Great Artist" plane responsible for collecting data. It began to hover in the air, adjusting its position for the photo.

Liu Xirui shouted loudly in the intercom:

"Attention escort pilots! Attention escort pilots! Put your goggles on your forehead, put them on when the counting starts, and take them off after the flash! Repeat"

"Enola. Thomas, the navigator and bombardier on Guy. Major Ferry had his right eye closed, his left eye pressed against a Knowlton scope. This kind of sight is more than a mark for two dollars. The Tween sight is a little more accurate, but much larger and heavier. His mustache was ridiculous, but this guy looked focused. At around 8:13:30, the small group flew 10,200 meters above Hiroshima at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour on the ground before flying back. Major Ferry needed to correct the aiming bias. At this time, the clouds in the sky had dispersed, and Liu Xirui clearly saw the landform of the whole of Hiroshima from the plane.

"Goal set!" Major Ferry reported loudly!

The bomber's wing lights flashed, and the escorting fighter pilots hurriedly pulled down the goggles on their foreheads!

(To be continued)