6th August - Enola gay drops Little Boy on Hiroshima
9th August - Bockscar drops Fat Man on Nagasaki
14th August - Japan Surrenders
So people saying the bombs dropped after Japan surrendered are just plain wrong. Also, it quite definitively ended the war, as the US and Japan were the last belligerent nations (Germany had surrendered back in May). And considering that almost a MILLION Japanese lives had been lost in a single firebombing raid on Tokyo, the atom bombs were almost mercies in comparison.
The bombs ended the war. Emperor Hirohito said as much when announcing the surrender.
Some notes on the song:
-"Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today" - I think this is meant to be a question, asking either the bomber or the woman if they're proud of it
-"It cant describe the feeling and the way you lied" - The Japanese saw three planes in the sky and assumed it was a recon flight, not a raid, as all the other raids had been dozens or hundreds of bombers, not three.
For those who are unaware of history:
6th August - Enola gay drops Little Boy on Hiroshima 9th August - Bockscar drops Fat Man on Nagasaki 14th August - Japan Surrenders
So people saying the bombs dropped after Japan surrendered are just plain wrong. Also, it quite definitively ended the war, as the US and Japan were the last belligerent nations (Germany had surrendered back in May). And considering that almost a MILLION Japanese lives had been lost in a single firebombing raid on Tokyo, the atom bombs were almost mercies in comparison.
The bombs ended the war. Emperor Hirohito said as much when announcing the surrender.
Some notes on the song:
-"Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today" - I think this is meant to be a question, asking either the bomber or the woman if they're proud of it -"It cant describe the feeling and the way you lied" - The Japanese saw three planes in the sky and assumed it was a recon flight, not a raid, as all the other raids had been dozens or hundreds of bombers, not three.