60th Aniversary of Nagasaki Bomb

Y'All,
Sixty years ago on this day I was a 21-year old corporal living on Tinian
Island in western Pacific Ocean.
I knew nothing about what was going on ouside of in a barn sized building
near the end of a West Field
runway. I was an instructor/mechanic at the 58th Bomb Wing Training Center.
Because of my experience with both the old and new (APN-4 and -9) LORAN
navigation system I was working and teaching at the center.

In the last months of the war I was told to assemble a radar bombardment
simulator that had arrived in several very large shipping crates. The one I
assembled was one of three, it was the first completed and operating. It
also was equipped the the very latest radar bombing set known as the APQ-23,
Ten years later it was the
Air Force standard on the B-47. From this set we derived DME and RNAV as
we now know it.

On my web site, Whittsflying.com, I have placed the operational manual of
this "Super Sonic Trainer" along with explanations as to how it operated.
Additionally there is the WWII aeronautical chart with Nagasaki to the lower
right. The practice bomb runs on the chart were not on Nagasaki because it
became the alternate due
to smoke obscuring the primary target . Whole story is on my site. The
thumb-nail pictures can be enlarged.
Gene Whitt


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