Tag: Japan
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Batman Complex At U.S. Air Force Base In Japan Revealed On Google Maps
Located on the U.S. Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan Link to the map – HERE I always considered Batman to be more of a “skunkworks” kind of guy. Whatever pays the bills though I guess… the batcave must be a bitch to keep warm in the winter.
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The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb – 65 years later
This is a photograph released by the U.S. government in 1960 that shows the Little Boy atom bomb, the type detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The bomb was 29 inches in diameter, 126 inches long and weighed 9,700 pounds with a yield equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT explosive. (AP Photo) Full photoset…
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Remember Pearl Harbor – 68 years ago today
Photo source: Corbis-Bettmann 68 years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese war planes attacked Pearl Harbor, the forward base for the United States in the Pacific, effectively drawing the United States into war with Japan. This picture of the sinking battleship USS West Virginia, illustrates the extent of the physical destruction. The crew of the…