The SeaBees also built docks to accommodate the USS Indianapolis, which was steaming to Tinian to deliver atomic bomb components for "Little Boy," the bomb ...
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, ...
The USS Indianapolis was a US Navy cruiser that delivered the components of the Little Boy atomic bomb to Tinian Island. It was later sunk by ...
The unescorted Indianapolis carried almost 1,200 sailors and had just delivered to Tinian Island components of the atomic bomb that was ...
The Indianapolis had at the time just completed a secret mission to a U.S. base on the island of Tinian to deliver parts for the atomic bomb used ...
voyage to deliver cargo to a U.S. air base on Tinian, one of the Mariana Islands, in the western Pacific.
Delivering Little Boy
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Arriving at Pearl Harbor on 19 July, she raced on unaccompanied, delivering the atomic bomb components to Tinian on 26 July. Indianapolis was then sent to ...
Tinian and the Atomic Bombs