Tipoffs for Santa Fe, New Mexico (Los Alamos) Newsletter for Tuesday August 19, 2025 ( 1 items ) |
Forged in war: How Dahlgren's work shaped victory in 1945
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news:
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Forged in war: How Dahlgren's work shaped victory in 1945
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Capt. William "Deak" Parsons lowered himself into the bomb bay of the "Enola Gay" in the early morning hours of Aug. 6, 1945. Minutes before, the B-29 Superfortress had departed from the North Field of Tinian Island. Parsons worked by flashlight, inserting a powder charge and detonator into a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen.
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