President Truman Warns Japan to Surrender or Face More Atomic Bombs - August 9, 1945

"Having found the [atomic] bomb, we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan’s power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us." ~President Harry S. Truman, August 9, 1945.

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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced bomber of World War II. Capable of carrying up to 20,000 pounds of bombs, far exceeding the bomb load of the smaller B-17 and B-24, the B-29 could fly higher, farther, and faster than any other bomber in the world. When the U.S. Army Air Corps awarded the first contract to Boeing in 1941, the B-29 went from the drawing board to a flying prototype in 16 months, to the first production model in 9 months, and just 11 months later, B-29s were dropping bombs on Japan. By the time the Japanese surrendered in August of 1945, over 1,000 B-29s were operating against Japan from their bases in the Mariana Islands.

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