The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, on 6 August at 8:15 in the morning. "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki by the Bockscar, on 9 August at 11:01 in the morning.
About 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and up to 80,000 in Nagasaki.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors
The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is o...
In 2022 Geoff Staden kindly sent us the photo of the mural and the following ...
We believe this plaque was erected in 1985, the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima...
This tree is a memorial to the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Since 1950 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) has organised an annual cer...
Foot and mouth disease (aphthae epizooticae) is an infectious disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals. Since 1967, Britain had been free of the disease, until an outbreak was detected on 19 Febr...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Steven Lawn was born on 28 October 1972 and his birth was registered in the Thanet, Kent, registration dis...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Christopher David Jones was born on 14 September 1947 in Heswall, Cheshire. He was the son of David Jones ...
Richard Martyn Full was born on 31 May 1964 in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, the son of Martyn John Full (1937-2011) and Maureen Full née Abbott. He used the surname of Gray which was the name of hi...
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