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Atom Bomb
by Encyclopædia Britannica (Video 00:01:10)
The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay takes off from the Marianas Islands on August 6, 1945, bound for Hiroshima, Japan—where, with the dropping of the atomic bomb, it will herald a new and terrible concept of warfare. From "The Second World War: Allied Victory" (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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