When We Dropped The Atomic Bombs…..

[Stewy]

(04-13-2023, 05:10 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: I was just thinking of something and I don’t know why I had never thought of it before.

When we dropped the atomic bombs on Japan, did our planes carrying the bombs have any fighter plane cover?

Were there no Japanese planes to shoot them down?

I just never heard of any defense to the bombings and that seems weird for a nation at war.

A)  The Japanese air force, sea and land, had essentially been destroyed, but more importantly they had lost 99% of their skilled pilots.  So they lost all their skill and all their teachers.  This is one reason why they turned to the kamikaze, because it took very little skill to pilot a flying bomb into a target.

B)  They flew very high and out of range of any fighter cover, if there had been any.