29.03.2023, 11:22
Zitat:Iconic Atomic Bomb Blast Imagery From Japan Almost Never Happenedhttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ic...r-happened
Visually documenting the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the result of luck and the acts of a few individuals, not thorough planning. [...]
The mushroom clouds pictured following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are among the most recognizable images taken in history. Yet the visual documentation of the only uses of atomic weapons in armed conflict has an intriguing history all its own. [...] Fast forward to August 6, 1945, when three American B-29 Superfortress bombers took off from Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas for Hiroshima. One of those bombers, "Necessary Evil," was kitted out to capture the explosion. Unlike at Trinity, however, "Necessary Evil's" Fastax camera failed and it appears as if only one of these cameras was aboard the aircraft, to begin with. Other cameras installed on "Necessary Evil" also failed to capture anything. [...]
George "Bob" Caron, the tail gunner of "Enola Gay" – the B-29 which dropped the nuclear bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima – was the only individual able to take any official photos of the blast, according to the video. Remarkably, this was because Caron brought a hand-held Fairchild K20 camera with him on the instructions of Jerome Ossip, the 509th Composite Group's photography officer. The first to see the fireball and the mushroom cloud, Caron was able to take several images when the plane turned after the bomb detonated.
Schneemann