Building, Handling, and Loading of Fat Man and Little Boy

[ordnance]

A friend sent me this link to some great photos of the two bombs dropped on Japan. I think I had previously seen only a couple of these images.

http://www.alternatewars.com/Bomb_Loading/Bomb_Guide.htm

 

[Weasel]

Thank you for posting that, a really interesting link and lots of pictures i had not seen before.
Best regards Weasel.

 

[eodda]

Thanks for posting these photos - very interesting stuff. I spent nearly three years on Tinian in the 1990s on an EOD clearance in advance of a radio station being built for the Voice of America. We found quite a bit of ordnance including both Japanese and US bombs, clusters, grenades and artillery projectiles. It's a really interesting place, but apart from the two bomb pits, there's very little left of what, for a brief period, must have been the most secret place on earth.

eodda

 

[Tietrack]

Nice pics. The sixth one down should read Hiroshima not Nagasaki.