Description

July 29 to August 4

This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945.This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday August 4, 1945.

Sunday, July 29,1945 - 13 Days After Trinity

https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Recent/Article-View/Article/2686164/navy-lessons-learned-from-sinking-of-indianapolis/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Mayfield - final MoH for actions before August 15 cessation of hostilities

Pumpkin bomb sorties - 9 aircraft

Monday, July 30,1945 - 14 Days After Trinity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochitsura_Hashimoto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Idaho_(BB-42)

Indianapolis was sunk from an attack at just after midnight local time. (It’s still the 29th in Zulu / GMT/UTC time, which might be where some of the confusion comes from.)

The moon was waning gibbous and rose at 10:28pm.  It would have been well above the eastern horizon at midnight. (Again, Indianapolis was heading west, Hashimoto attacked the Starboard side, so he was facing south. That would’ve put the moon to his own starboard side, and about 20 degrees up from the horizon. )

https://phasesmoon.com/moonday29July1945.html

Hashimoto notes that the moon was up when he found Indianapolis - and that therefore he dove quickly. 

Action report says 450 miles EAST of Leyte gulf, heading 262 so just short of due West (270). 

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/investigation-and-court-martial/after-action-report-of-mcvay.html

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/investigation-and-court-martial/court-martial.html

Tuesday, July 31,1945 - 15 Days After Trinity

The submarine USS Bullhead leaves Fremantle, Australia, to commence her third war patrol.  This patrol would be under the command of Lieutenant Commander Edward R. Holt, Jr. The previous captain  of Bullhead, Commander Walter T Griffith, is sent to Guam, where he is to become Assistant Operations Officer to Vice Admiral Lockwood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_T._Griffith

Griffith recieved TWO Navy Crosses - from his previous sub tours, before Bullhead. 

Stimson to Truman

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/henry-stimson-harry-s-truman-attached-draft-press-release?documentid=NA&pagenumber=1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/countdown-to-hiroshima-for-july_b_3663837.html

August 1945

Wednesday, August 1,1945 - 16 Days After Trinity

Thursday, August 2,1945 - 17 Days After Trinity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

An intersting equivalence, the ship was sunk early Monday, one week before Hiroshima; they are found mid-Thursday, one week before Nagasaki

Friday, August 3,1945 - 18 Days After Trinity

https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0802/02101.html

Hiroshima’s Legacy - by Motoko Sakama

Been looking for some pictures of the train station in Kobe, found one of GIs there in January 1946, and this one here.

https://www.meijishowa.com/photography/5335/160305-0004-hankyu-railway-kobe-station

Saturday, August 4,1945 - 19 Days After Trinity

• The Soviets gifted a plaque to the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow that was secretly bugged with The Thing, one of the earliest covert listening devices ever invented. It would hang in the Spaso House for seven years until its secret was discovered.
• Paul Tibbets briefed his crewmates on the bombing mission to Hiroshima, saying the bombs would be immensely powerful and "something new in the history of warfare", but giving no specifics.^[

Summer of Trinity is a part of Mapping History here on The Latest Generation.