James Haider

The Untold Story of Japan's Atomic Bomb

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 1.5 million people. Two days later, an American fighter pilot was captured by the Japanese. He was Marcus E. McDilda, pilot of a P-Fifty-One Mustang bomber. McDilda was one of the fighter pilots who dropped thousands of bombs on Japan over several months. He was then captured and paraded through the streets of Osaka, where he was brutally beaten and abused by the Japanese. The guards kept him alive and tried to extract confidential information from him. After the demonstration, the pilot was taken to prison and severely beaten. What is an atomic bomb? What is an atomic bomb? How many other nuclear weapons does the USA possess? Pilot McDilda had studied chemistry in high school and university and knew what an atom was. However, he didn't know what an atomic bomb was. At the time, he wasn't even a member of the US Air Force's Combined Brigade, made up of nine or fifteen men trained to drop atomic bombs on Japan. He wasn't even part of the Army's engineering department, so he knew nothing about weapons. In other words, to him, the atomic bomb and signs of life from above on Earth were the same thing. But ultimately, it was to save his own life. After all, if the Japanese had known he wasn't one of them, they wouldn't have wasted their time killing him. There could be no pity, for millions were dying. There could be no pity, because millions of Japanese had already been killed by the American army. So McDilda started making up stories. It was then that he was tortured again and the sword began to cut into the skin of his face.