The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, on 6 August at 8:15 in the morning. "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki by the Bockscar, on 9 August at 11:01 in the morning.
About 100,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and up to 80,000 in Nagasaki.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors
The ideograms are Japanese Kanji characters forming the word Heiwa which is o...
In 2022 Geoff Staden kindly sent us the photo of the mural and the following ...
We believe this plaque was erected in 1985, the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima...
This tree is a memorial to the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Since 1950 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) has organised an annual cer...
Electrician on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar Street,...
Ihab Slimane was born on 19 June 1981 in Lyons, France, and came to the UK in June 2005 to improve his English. He set up home near Finsbury Park and was working as a waiter at Gabrielle's, a Frenc...
William Beckham is the boy lying on his side on the left at the front in the photograph of the scout troop. He was one of the ten children of William John Beckham (1870-1917) and Harriett Beckham...
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page.
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