B-29 Superfortress Fifi flying over my head in Long Beach, CA on Nov. 13, 2010. Heard a distinctive roar and jumped out of my car to take a photo of last flying example of the Superfortress.
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Her payload missed my father's family home in Hiroshima by four miles; the atomic bomb's hypocenter was four miles due east. However, dad was incarcerated at the Minidoka, Idaho concentration camp along with 9,000 other Japanese-Americans when the bomb was dropped.
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Enola Gay - Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, June 28, 2010
Her payload missed my father's family home in Hiroshima by four miles; the atomic bomb's hypocenter was four miles due east.
However, dad was incarcerated at the Minidoka, Idaho concentration camp along with 9,000 other Japanese-Americans when the bomb was dropped. Now, 65 years later, his grandkids are standing in her shadow.
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Enola Gay - Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, June 28, 2010
Her payload missed my father's family home in Hiroshima by four miles; the atomic bomb's hypocenter was four miles due east.
However, dad was incarcerated at the Minidoka, Idaho concentration camp along with 9,000 other Japanese-Americans when the bomb was dropped.
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Blackbird Airpark / Palmdale, CA with the Roush Road Crew. My Mustang is the Grabber Orange. Pictured front and center are John Clark, Col. Jimmy Doolittle IIIrd, and Mike Machat. (Photo: Tony R. Landis, NASA Photographer)
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