The Last Bomb (ca 1945) 3 of 4

4 Vidoes 00:35:00
The Last Bomb was a 1945 propaganda film mainly concerning the conventional phase of the bombing of Japan in 1945.
The film begins by describing the taking off points in Saipan, Guam, and Tinian, remarking how they have changed since American occupation. General Curtis LeMay is shown planning a daylight raid on Japan's industrial areas.
A bomber squadron of B-29s then assembles and the audience rides with them through a space of ocean as wide as the US from Mexico to Canada, special attention being given to the island Iwo Jima, which is midway through the journey. The film then proceeds to the actual bombing of Japan, showing one of the B-29s' encounters with Japanese planes, and the destruction leveled on Tokyo by the B-29s' payload and subsequent strafing.
When the bombers return to base, the hazards of war are assessed, particularly the problems associated with landing the large planes, which could sometimes be fatal.
At the very end some color footage of the mushroom cloud at Hiroshima is shown, the narrator telling us that it saves thousands of American lives by preventing an invasion of Japan.

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Education

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• Hiroshima
• Atomic
• Bomb
• Japan
• B-29
• Superfortress
• Tokyo
• World
• War
• II
• History
• Historical
• Army
• Air
• Force

[StephenETavington]

what's the object which dropped on 08:28? the pilot?

[2bn442RCT]

A gas belly tank

[flammingdart]

Giving the Japanese some of their own medicine!

[randy95023]

We should have hung Hirohito right next to Tojo for the horrors they brought upon Asia, not to mention their own people!

[SithSereyPheap1]

Spectacular attack !!

[jonbryn4]

thats silly stphen it was a microwave triggered bomb lol

[crissy214]

@vakyzaky  such a poor lost soul. I pray you are never in need of help from the good old USA

[328thDoodle]

External Fuel tank.

[Mainsail76]

"51 square miles of LeMay treatment." I love it.

[vakyzaky]

Yeah right, Americans have never started the war..say that to the people of Iraq, Somalia, Korea, Vietnam, Serbia..Indians, black people..and many others..so sad

[corrion1]

6:30 man those japs on the beach are lucky!

[randy95023]

Remember Pearl Harbor!! We would have never bombed Japan if they hadn't started the war with us. It is really too bad about the average Japanese civilian who suffered through the carnage brought on their heads by their fanatical leaders. Hirohito could have stopped the war after the crippling defeat at Midway. By late 1942 the Jap leaders had to know that they would be crushed in the end, yet they decided to fight "to the finish".