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On August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay -dropped the “Little Boy” on s Y Hiroshima * It is an important commercial and industrial center el, rubber, furniture, and canned foods. The city is also a market for agricultural and marine products. Hiroshima was the target (Aug. 6, 1945) of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area; almost 130,000 peo le were killed, injured, or missing, and 90% of the city was leveled. Much of the city has been reconstructed, but a gutted section has been set aside as a "Peace City” to illustrate the On August 9, 1945 the Bocks Car dropped the “Fat Man” on Nagasaki It is one of Japan's leading ports, Shipbuilding is the chief industry; steelworks, collieries, fisheries, and electrical machinery plants are also important. Nagasaki's port, the first to receive Western trade. ae a center of Christianity, the city had until 1945 Japan's largest Roman Catholic cathedral. During World War II, on Aug. 9, 1945, Nagasaki became the target of the second atomic bomb ever datanatad an a nanilatad araa: ahaut 75 ANN

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