Hiroshima...65 years later

[Jon Skagfeld]

Did any MLUers catch the back to back programs on History channel?

B&W, they were a dramatization of events leading up to the dropping of "Fat Boy" and "Little Man" on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively.

Great original shots of B29s doing their thing, interspersed with the dramatization.

Last night, "Fat Boy", after sufficient testing, was transported from Los Alamos, New Mexico to the coast for furtherance to Tinian for its ultimate fate.

What is fascinating is that the convoy had a Jeep in front with a crusader shield and unit square on the lower windshield( this would be consistent with post-war domestic Canadian SMPs). I'll be damned if there wasn't a C15 and a C60 following the Jeep allegedly transporting the atomic bomb!

A later scene showed a Jeep rolling into a HQ area (Curtis LeMay's?). This veh had a unit sign with "67" as Unit sign.. Obviously a different Jeep, but obviously Canadian marked.

Sic transit gloria!

Can I stand to be corrected that no Canadian vehs, especially CMPs, were operating in New Mexico during the testing of the A bomb?