Reviewing history in the military, the Air Force and triumphs and misadventures in airpower. On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dubbed “Enola Gay” dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb, nicknamed the “Little Boy,” over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing approximately 110,000 Japanese citizens. Three days later, the U.S. dropped the second atom bomb on Japan, at Nagasaki, leading to Japan’s surrender in WWII. The U.S. had originally planned to drop the bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man,” on Nagasaki on Aug.11, five days after the first was dropped on Hiroshima, but weather forced crews…
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News outlets everywhere have been reporting that this soldier gave his family one big surprise, and in the quirkiest way. However, he’s not an Army guy. Captain Hyrum Bronson, an Air Force physician based at Kadena Air Base, Japan, had been deployed for six months serving in Afghanistan and wasn’t expected to return for another three weeks. With his early return, he decided to give his unsuspecting wife and kids one big surprise while they took a swim. Watch below: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXdIEbU_iZg[/youtube]
The Air Force responded in a big way when an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan in March. The service sent cargo jets full of relief supplies, provided use of its radiation-sniffing aircraft and provided footage of the disaster scene from an RQ-4 Global Hawk. The chaplains also passed the hat to raise money for earthquake victims and came up with more than $250,000, according to a news release. The money went to emergency-aid organizations like the American Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services and Samaritan’s Purse. “The generosity of airmen and their families has been and is a constant reminder that…