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B-29 dropping Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan

Original footage. This bomb shortened the war by one to three years, saved 1 to 3 million GI's lives, 99% of the Japanese military and about one third of the Japanese population if a land invasion of Japan had been necessary. It ended World War II and...

from YouTube on Mon, Feb 11 2008

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