Hiroshima 1945 - The British Atomic Attack

This is the story of the secret 'Black Lancasters', a specially trained RAF unit that was to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Why? Because the American B-29 Superfortress couldn't do it! Find out how this extraordinary situation arose and how the Americans managed to perform the mission in the end.
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Sources:
- Norman F, Ramsey Jr. to Roy Chadwick, October 23, 1943, Folder Dr. Norman Ramsey, Box 6,
Tolman Files, RG 227/81, NARA
- General Leslie Groves, 'Now it Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project', (Harper & Row: 1962)
- Richard Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', (Simon & Schuster: 1986)
- James Gibson, 'History of the US Nuclear Arsenal', (Bison Books: 1989)
- Richard H. Campbell, 'The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs', (McFarland & Company: 2005)
- Robert S. Norris, 'Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man', (Steerforth Press: 2002)
- History of Enstone Airfield: www.enstoneaerodrome.co.uk/ox...