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  1. 20h ago

    Summer of Trinity Again - Week Ending August 25, 1945

    Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. August 19 to August 25 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945,  This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday August 25, 1945.  My initial thought was that "it wasn't a very interesting week" but quickly realized how interesting it really was. The Daghlian criticality incident, happening so soon after all three of  the first atomic detonations, so often is treated as simply an industrial accident, but it's right in the middle of this very busy month. Ho Chi Minh is consolidating his authority over Vietnam,  in direct response to the power vacuum caused by Japan's surrender, and at breakneck speed. The Chinese Civil War has resumed, the Soviet Union continues to pursue a war that is barely two weeks old,  colonial powers are returning to their former areas of power - yet before this, I'd hardly realized how much was happening in there.  I daresay one could put together an intensive college-level semester course on "The End of World War II, August 15-September 2," and spend a week on each day, looking at all of the machinery of war, diplomacy, science, and politics being upended in that time, and how it affected the next century. That may be the reason that it's rarely covered: So much is happening that a manageable storyline can't be concocted that ties it all together.  And because of that, every single day of it needs intensive research to discuss intelligently.  Which is the real answer to how it ended up short.   In any case, here is the next episode. Since the surrender ceremony is on Sunday, I'm currently planning on including that in the next episode (so 8 days instead of 7, ending on Sunday instead of Saturday).     Sunday, August 19,1945 - 34 Days After Trinity   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yongjiazhen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_assault_on_Maoka   Monday, August 20,1945 - 35 Days After Trinity When I was younger, I remember references to "quisling" as a traitor. It stopped being used, though, and it now takes some research to remember who he was and why he, so quickly, became that noun of choice.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling   U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Harriman informs Truman of the gift of "A framed photograph of a portrait of Stalin" presumably a response to the picture received three weeks earlier. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/node/349075 Tuesday, August 21,1945 - 36 Days After Trinity Daghlian Criticality accident (Demon Core) - he would die 25 days later, in mid September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Daghlian https://members.tripod.com/~Arnold_Dion/Daghlian/accident.html An estimate of radiation doses for Hiroshima survivors. Reading through other stories, though - specifically the New Yorker's Hiroshima - it's clear that many people received lethal doses  without being signficantly injured otherwise.  https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=146517 This notes that the 100% lethal doses is 400 rem - one-tenth or even one percent of what Daghlian received. https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-emergencies/causes/radiation-thermometer.html   Wednesday, August 22,1945 - 37 Days After Trinity   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Soviet_invasion_of_Hokkaido     Thursday, August 23,1945 - 38 Days After Trinity Battle of Shumshu ends - Soviet victory over Japan, but Soviets had more casualties.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shumshu   Friday, August 24,1945 - 39 Days After Trinity   https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/bullhead-i.html  https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/alphabetical-listing/b/uss-bullhead--ss-332-0.html The Matsue incident - a group of young Japanese riot in opposition to the end of the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue_incident   Saturday, August 25,1945 - 40 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication_of_Bảo_Đại https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_South_Sakhalin https://www.nytimes.com/1945/08/25/archives/submarine-bullhead-lost-java-sea-patrol-her-last.html Summer of Trinity is a part of Mapping History here on The Latest Generation.

  2. Aug 11

    Summer of Trinity Again - Week Ending August 18, 1945

    Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. August 12 to August 18   Sunday, August 12,1945 - 27 Days After Trinity 3 days after Nagasaki, 6 days after Hiroshima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smyth_Report Dr. Bine notes the unexpected arrival of the ending of the war. https://www.dearfolksies.com/august-12-1945-75-years-ago-in-a-ww2-m-a-s-h-unit/   Monday, August 13,1945 - 28 Days After Trinity, 1 week after Hiroshima https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/investigation-and-court-martial/court-of-inquiry.html https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/investigation-and-court-martial/court-of-inquiry-findings.html https://www.ussindianapolis.com/captain-mcvay   Tuesday, August 14,1945 - 29 Days After Trinity Final pumpkin bomb sortie: 6 aircraft.  Kyūjō incident The east coast of the United States is about 14 hours behind Japan, so while the surrender occurred in Japan on the 15th, the victory celebrations began in the US on the 14th.  V-J Day in Times Square Wednesday, August 15,1945 - 30 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan   Thursday, August 16,1945 - 31 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Revolution   Friday, August 17,1945 - 32 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_Manchukuo   Saturday, August 18,1945 - 33 Days After Trinity https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30966890/anthony-james-marchione

  3. Aug 5

    Summer of Trinity Again - Week Ending August 11, 1945

    Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. August 5 to August 11   This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.  This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday August 11, 1945. Sunday, August 5,1945 - 20 Days After Trinity Pictures of the survivors of the USS Indianapolis https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/album-of-survivors.html https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99227503/robert-lee-shipman  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148385896/frederick-elliott-harrison     Monday, August 6,1945 - 21 Days After Trinity   Pacific Theater Tinian 2:45AM - The squadron of bombers departs for a six-hour flight to Japan.   Hiroshima   Lombok Strait, near Bali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_losses_in_World_War_II European Theater https://www.dearfolksies.com/august-6-1945-75-years-ago-in-a-ww2-m-a-s-h-unit/ Coincidentally (I presume) this letter includes a "So it goes" He uses that idiom a few times in his letters, but this is the first time since 1943, and this is the only time he uses it just as is - other times he has a conjunction at the start (e.g. "But so it goes.") https://www.dearfolksies.com/?s=%22so+it+goes%22&id=11367 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five (The bombing of Dresden that inspires parts of the novel was mid-February 1945.)   Aboard the USS Augusta, Atlantic Ocean) Washington, District of Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Johnson https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-hiram-johnson-19450807-story.html   Los Angeles 2:30PM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bong He was 24 years old.  Tuesday, August 7,1945 - 22 Days After Trinity     Next day, Hiroshima, Alone, seeking parents, finds A broken jizo   https://www.scalar.oberlincollegelibrary.org/shikoku/shikoku-gors-angry-jizo-illustrations?path=the-angry-jizo   A creative commons picture of a Jizo statue: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jizo_statue_at_Zōjō-ji.jpg https://mythopedia.com/topics/jizo Flower Robotics Inc. (robot: Posy) -  the robot that shows up for a minute in the film Lost in Translation - comes up because it looks a bit like a Jizo. The description I found indicates it's supposed to be a young child - like a  3-year-old at a wedding who carries a bouquet  for the bride - but nothing about the Jizo similarity, so probably just an impression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nio   Wednesday, August 8,1945 - 23 Days After Trinity It is three months since the surrender of Germany.   Thursday, August 9,1945 - 24 Days After Trinity, 3 days after Hiroshima     https://atomicphotographers.com/photographers/charles-levy/   Los Alamos   Washington, District of Columbia   San Francisco, California     Pacific Theater https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1159799358650499072      Friday, August 10,1945 - 25 Days After Trinity   Moscow, USSR   August 10 heated discussion on surrender terms.  https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/68.pdf   Washington DC   https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6874336   Saturday, August 11,1945 - 26 Days After Trinity   Motoko Sakama sees a newspaper headline saying that her father, the Mayor of Hiroshima, is one of those who had been killed by the atomic bombing on Monday. She realizes that other members of her family, including her daughter, may have died as well.  https://www.nytimes.com/1945/08/12/archives/eisenhower-flies-to-moscow-fete-lead-soviet-forces-against-japanese.html

  4. Jul 31

    Redux - Lost Boys and Golden Girls

    It's not QUITE the 40th anniversary of The Lost Boys (39 years today), and just past the 40th anniversary of Highlander, but it's close enough.  And there are other reasons to redo this one today - with its thoughts on immortality, legacy, good times and fellowship - so, doing that.  "Never let a night like tonight go to waste." ==================================================== Considering whether Gen X views of life, death, and immortality were shaped by two mid-80s films: Highlander (1986) and The Lost Boys (1987)   Yes yes yes, I said Steward Copeland at about 9:12 and realized just moments ago that I completely meant Douglas Coupland, who wrote Generation X: Tales For an Accelerated Culture in 1991 https://www.coupland.com/books/generation-x-tales-for-an-accelerated-culture And my point there is that in 1987 the Lost Boys was certainly depicting Gen X characters with Gen X actors, but nobody called them Gen X at the time.   Interview with the Vampire was published in 1976 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview_with_the_Vampire Its sequel, The Vampire Lestat, was 1985   The Mystery of Dracula's Castle - a scooby doo mystery in all but name, with inspiration from Christopher Lee's Dracula over and over. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068985/ The Hunger  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085701/ The Lost Boys - straight to the tagline https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/taglines Highlander https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/ Cocoon https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088933/   Siskel and Ebert - Lost Boys starts at 9:44 -  https://siskelebert.org/?p=2948 Highlander is the first one here, about 1:30 - they both disliked it rather a lot https://siskelebert.org/?p=1496   First chapter of The Golden Bough - Frazer calls the King a "murderer" rather than a "killer" so I'll randomly note that A) in the 1536 battler in Highlander, the Macleods are fighting the Frasers and B) "Matador" is literally "killer" in Spanish   The Spirit of Christmas, which spawned South Park, references Highlander's repeated line "There Can Be Only One" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122264/   When talking about Reactives and the Awakening, probably worth looking at this previous entry on my blog https://crisis.generationalize.com/2014/01/reactiveness.html   Unrelated but it's a photo series called Lost Boys - millennials back at home after college or high school or whatever they decided they could do. https://www.businessinsider.com/liz-calvi-lost-boys-photo-project-2014-9#calvi-started-with-her-good-group-of-guy-friends-but-eventually-branched-out-to-look-for-more-subjects-in-town-nolan-pictured-here-is-currently-studying-graphics-in-college-and-he-lives-with-his-parents-for-the-summer-2 Here's the archive she set up https://seulementdanslereve.tumblr.com/archive And her home page https://www.lizcalvi.com/commissions   "Vampire of the Mists" (1991) was a few years later, so probably influenced by Anne Rice and The Lost Boys and everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_of_the_Mists   Wikipedia sayeth that Peter Pan first appeared in a novel in 1902, while the play first appeared in 1904. He's very much of the Nomad archetype. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan Completely unrelated, except insofar as Aiken Drum (the character) is much like Peter Pan and has other Nomad / Reactive archetype indicators https://manycolored.fandom.com/wiki/Many-Colored_Wiki   Pogonip club house http://deepbluemoon.com/misc/pogonip/ Other locations - the interiors were on a set at Warner Brothers https://www.visitcalifornia.com/attraction/lost-boys-santa-cruz-tour   Gregory Widen, screenwriter for Highlander. Born in 1958, he's a late Boomer. He also wrote Backdraft. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0927074/ Russel Mulcahy - his director credits here include the music videos - which included Video Killed the Radio Star by Buggles, which unfortunately I can't find, so here are some others. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611683 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxc9eFcZyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyv905Q2omU Max has mission style outdoor lamps - not too common at the time. (Although it was becoming popular again) https://casetext.com/case/l-jg-stickley-inc-v-canal-dover-furn Grandpas house is here (interiors were a set at Warner Bros.) - a very 1900s house  http://www.mobileranger.com/santacruz/pogonip-the-cowell-family-polo-and-a-poltergeist/ CSUN Queen show, 1989 - there will be another episode one day about why this matters….but I didn't even have a chance to get into, here, how I and Angela and 150 of our closest friends did a field show with two songs from Highlander, plus Bohemian Rhapsody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjkHl0paHbM

  5. Jul 29

    Summer of Trinity Again - Week Ending August 4, 1945

    Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 29 to August 4 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945.This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday August 4, 1945. Sunday, July 29,1945 - 13 Days After Trinity   https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Recent/Article-View/Article/2686164/navy-lessons-learned-from-sinking-of-indianapolis/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Mayfield - final MoH for actions before August 15 cessation of hostilities   Pumpkin bomb sorties - 9 aircraft   Monday, July 30,1945 - 14 Days After Trinity   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochitsura_Hashimoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Idaho_(BB-42)   Indianapolis was sunk from an attack at just after midnight local time. (It's still the 29th in Zulu / GMT/UTC time, which might be where some of the confusion comes from.) The moon was waning gibbous and rose at 10:28pm.  It would have been well above the eastern horizon at midnight. (Again, Indianapolis was heading west, Hashimoto attacked the Starboard side, so he was facing south. That would've put the moon to his own starboard side, and about 20 degrees up from the horizon. ) https://phasesmoon.com/moonday29July1945.html Hashimoto notes that the moon was up when he found Indianapolis - and that therefore he dove quickly.  Action report says 450 miles EAST of Leyte gulf, heading 262 so just short of due West (270).  https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/investigation-and-court-martial/after-action-report-of-mcvay.html   https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/investigation-and-court-martial/court-martial.html   Tuesday, July 31,1945 - 15 Days After Trinity The submarine USS Bullhead leaves Fremantle, Australia, to commence her third war patrol.  This patrol would be under the command of Lieutenant Commander Edward R. Holt, Jr. The previous captain  of Bullhead, Commander Walter T Griffith, is sent to Guam, where he is to become Assistant Operations Officer to Vice Admiral Lockwood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_T._Griffith Griffith recieved TWO Navy Crosses - from his previous sub tours, before Bullhead.  Stimson to Truman https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/henry-stimson-harry-s-truman-attached-draft-press-release?documentid=NA&pagenumber=1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/countdown-to-hiroshima-for-july_b_3663837.html   August 1945   Wednesday, August 1,1945 - 16 Days After Trinity   Thursday, August 2,1945 - 17 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35) An intersting equivalence, the ship was sunk early Monday, one week before Hiroshima; they are found mid-Thursday, one week before Nagasaki Friday, August 3,1945 - 18 Days After Trinity https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0802/02101.html Hiroshima's Legacy - by Motoko Sakama Been looking for some pictures of the train station in Kobe, found one of GIs there in January 1946, and this one here. https://www.meijishowa.com/photography/5335/160305-0004-hankyu-railway-kobe-station Saturday, August 4,1945 - 19 Days After Trinity The Soviets gifted a plaque to the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow that was secretly bugged with The Thing, one of the earliest covert listening devices ever invented. It would hang in the Spaso House for seven years until its secret was discovered. Paul Tibbets briefed his crewmates on the bombing mission to Hiroshima, saying the bombs would be immensely powerful and "something new in the history of warfare", but giving no specifics.[   Summer of Trinity is a part of Mapping History here on The Latest Generation.

  6. Jul 21

    Summer of Trinity Again - Week ending July 28, 1945

    Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 22 to July 28, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.  This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday July 28th, 1945. Sunday, July 22,1945 - 6 Days After Trinity From Stimson's diary, excerpts on http://www.doug-long.com/stimson8.htm   Monday, July 23,1945 - 7 Days After Trinity Marshall Philipe Petain is put on trial for treason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Pétain https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/goofs?item=gf6476041 https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVAAZ495DZU8UIV501CI3L12J1LY-THE-1945-TRIAL-OF-PHILIPPE-PETAIN/query/wildcard   Tuesday, July 24,1945 - 8 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_Kure_and_the_Inland_Sea_(July_1945) http://www.ussunderhill.org/html/kaiten_information.html http://www.ussunderhill.org/html/sorryno.htm Nathan G. Benchley, in an article written for the New Yorker in 1953, mentions a conversation about current attitudes towards the war.  "Who's winning the war?" Roth asked me as I came in. "Search me," I said, and sat down. "I heard that in Guam the birdmen have a pool on it," Tampke said. "They got a million-dollar pool that says the war will be over by October. You can dip into it for any money you want." "Did they say October what year?" I asked. "I don't know," Tampke replied. "I just heard October."   Wednesday, July 25,1945 - 9 Days After Trinity An official bombing order is made for the first atomic weapon:  From http://www.dannen.com/decision/handy.html Thursday, July 26,1945 - 10 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu  Friday, July 27,1945 - 11 Days After Trinity https://ancientwarhistory.com/the-final-days-of-imperial-japan-the-potsdam-declaration-soviet-intervention-and-japans-surrender/ https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/truman-papers/correspondence-harry-s-truman-bess-wallace-truman-1921-1959/july-27-1945 Saturday, July 28,1945 - 12 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Empire_State_Building_B-25_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aioi_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial Note: Dobashi is near to Koamicho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Callaghan_(DD-792)

  7. Jul 15

    Summer of Trinity Again - Week Ending July 21, 1945

    Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 15 to July 21, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.  This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday July 21th, 1945.   Sunday, July 15,1945 - 1 Day Before Trinity 12th Army Situation Map (Germany and surrounding areas) https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1945/trinity_evaluations.htm The American contingent arrives at Potsdam. The imminent start of the conference was a major reason the Trinity test had been planned of this week. Returning from his one-day shakedown cruise for the USS Indianapolis, Captain McVay meets with Captain William Parsons of Project Alberta and Admiral William R. Purnell - one of the chief military advisors for the Manhattan Project. They don't mention these connections to McVay, who is informed only that his ship has been chosen for an important mission: He is to proceed with all possible speed across the Pacific, first to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and then to the Marianas, on the edge of the Philippine sea. There he will deliver his cargo to the air base on the island of Tinian.  He is assured that every day saved delivering the cargo is a day closer to the end of the war. He is to safeguard the cargo at all costs - ALL costs. If the ship is lost, his first priority will be saving this cargo - if necessary, a lifeboat is to be used to ensure it is undamaged. McVay will not, however, be told what the cargo actually is.     There are some clues, however. There are two Army officers who will accompany the cargo and see it safely ashore at Tinian: Major Robert Furman, and Capt. James Nolan. While they are presented as "artillerymen," McVay eventually learns from Captain Nolan that he is actually a doctor, with the implication that there are some health concerns about the cargo. Nolan assures McVay that there is no actual danger to the crew of the Indianapolis. Nolan does not mention that he is one of two medical doctors at Los Alamos - not that McVay would have know where that was - nor that he is the doctor who put together the safety plan to ensure the health of those attending the upcoming Trinity test. But McVay knows that there are not a lot of materials that are both relatively small and enough of a health concern to merit the attendance of a doctor. https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/james-f-nolan/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._McVay_III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)   Monday, July 16,1945 - Trinity Yoko Moriwaki's diary is available through online and other booksellers, and in some libraries. https://www.amazon.com/Yokos-Diary-Paul-Ham/dp/0733331173/r https://www.dearfolksies.com/wabern-germany-july-10-august-23-1945/6/ https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/node/400674   Tuesday, July 17,1945 - 1 Day After Trinity The Potsdam Conference began in Potsdam, occupied Germany. Representatives of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States met to discuss how to administer postwar Germany. https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/images/szilard_petition.htm https://biology.indiana.edu/documents/historical-materials/gest_pdfs/hgSzilard.pdf   Wednesday, July 18,1945 - 2 Days After Trinity http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/correspondence/groves-leslie/corr_groves_1945-07-18_print.htm Thursday, July 19,1945 - 3 Days After Trinity  https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline  Friday, July 20,1945 - 4 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze - The atomic bombs used these, which were actually a very new technology, but one that had already proven its worth - Patton proclaimed that the proximity fuze had contributed greatly to the American success in the Battle of the Bulge.  Saturday, July 21,1945 - 5 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Underhill https://ussunderhill.org/index.html

  8. Jul 7

    Summer of Trinity Again - Week ending July 14, 1945

    Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 8 to July 14, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.  This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday July 14th, 1945.   Sunday, July 8,1945 - 8 Days Before Trinity It is two months since the surrender of Germany. The Utah prisoner of war massacre occurred just after midnight when an American soldier killed nine German prisoners of war and wounded twenty others at a camp in Salina, Utah. Salina is about 150 miles from Salt Lake City and Fort Douglas.     Monday, July 9,1945 - 7 Days Before Trinity   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_9,_1945 https://www.ednasjournal.com/post/july-9-1945-monday https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026164/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/science/staring-at-the-sun-as-it-disappeared.html https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/june/deak-and-little-boy  https://www.atomicheritage.org/key-documents/dangers-accidental-detonations     Tuesday, July 10,1945 - 6 Days Before Trinity https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-01-mn-24352-story.html     Wednesday, July 11,1945 - 5 Days Before Trinity Assembly of the Gadget begins. https://www.atomicheritage.org/event/1945-july-11   Thursday, July 12,1945 - 4 Days Before Trinity https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/truman-papers/correspondence-harry-s-truman-bess-wallace-truman-1921-1959/july-12-1945?documentid=NA&pagenumber=2 https://www.2020hindsight.org/2005/07/12/1945-plutonium-core-leaves-los-alamos/ (for the Trinity test site)   Friday, July 13,1945 - 3 Days Before Trinity The Proving Ground was officially authorized by ASF Circular 269, July 13, effective July 9, 1945.   Saturday, July 14,1945 - 2 Days Before Trinity https://farragutlife.com/mare-island/

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