This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test. This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday July 28th, 1945.
Sunday, July 22,1945 - 6 Days After Trinity
From Stimson’s diary, excerpts on http://www.doug-long.com/stimson8.htm
Monday, July 23,1945 - 7 Days After Trinity
Marshall Philipe Petain is put on trial for treason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Pétain
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/goofs?item=gf6476041
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVAAZ495DZU8UIV501CI3L12J1LY-THE-1945-TRIAL-OF-PHILIPPE-PETAIN/query/wildcard
Tuesday, July 24,1945 - 8 Days After Trinity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_Kure_and_the_Inland_Sea_(July_1945)
http://www.ussunderhill.org/html/kaiten_information.html
http://www.ussunderhill.org/html/sorryno.htm
Nathan G. Benchley, in an article written for the New Yorker in 1953, mentions a conversation about current attitudes towards the war.
| "Who’s winning the war?" Roth asked me as I came in. "I heard that in Guam the birdmen have a pool on it," Tampke said. "They got a million-dollar pool that says the war will be over by October. You can dip into it for any money you want." "Did they say October what year?" I asked. |
Wednesday, July 25,1945 - 9 Days After Trinity
An official bombing order is made for the first atomic weapon:
From http://www.dannen.com/decision/handy.html
Thursday, July 26,1945 - 10 Days After Trinity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu
Friday, July 27,1945 - 11 Days After Trinity
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/truman-papers/correspondence-harry-s-truman-bess-wallace-truman-1921-1959/july-27-1945
Saturday, July 28,1945 - 12 Days After Trinity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Empire_State_Building_B-25_crash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aioi_Bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial
Note: Dobashi is near to Koamicho
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Callaghan_(DD-792)
