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 theOn 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
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