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  • Summer of Trinity - Week ending July 7, 1945

    Summer of Trinity - Week ending July 7, 1945
    Jul 9 2025

    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 7th, 1945.

    Sunday, July 1,1945 - 15 Days Before Trinity

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_C4-class_ship

    http://ww2troopships.com/crossings/1945b.htm

    https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_7.HTM

    http://www.yeide.net/World_War_II_History/Cavalry_Histories.html

    Monday, July 2,1945 - 14 Days Before Trinity

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sterling_Parsons Captain William Parsons, US Navy - head of Project Alberta, which is the part of the Manhattan Project focused on delivering the bomb to it’s target.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_F._Farrell - Brigadier General Thomas Farrell, who is “Grove’s deputy for operations”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Purnell - Rear Admiral William Purnell is Navy liason to manhattan project, also the Navy’s deputy chief for materiel.

    http://www.dannen.com/decision/testdate.html

    The "IT" mentioned a couple of times there appears to be the Little Boy device, which was going to be transported to Tinian aboard the USS Indianapolis (then finishing repairs in the San Franciso area), and which Parsons was coordinating with Purnell.

    Tuesday, July 3,1945 - 13 Days Before Trinity

    https://automotivehistory.org/july-3-1945-ford-starts-postwar-production/

    https://vtauto.org/1946-ford-tudor/

    https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/64-57-01

    Wednesday, July 4,1945 - 12 Days Before Trinity

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/truman-independence-day-message-1945

    https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/72/statement-president-fourth-july

    Thursday, July 5,1945 - 11 Days Before Trinity

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election

    Friday, July 6,1945 - 10 Days Before Trinity

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/delivering-atomic-bombs-silverplate-b-29

    https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/EnolaGay/EnolaGay.html

    Saturday, July 7,1945 - 9 Days Before Trinity

    http://www.brigs.us/Phila/Candids1.htm — photographs from USS Philadelphia

    http://www.brigs.us/Phila/reunion-files/and-we-were-there-Truman-Potsdam.htm - a first-person account of the trip

    https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2014/08/14/truman-bacall-and-that-photograph/

    https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-600000/80-G-603322.html
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    16 min
  • Summer of Trinity - Week ending June 30, 1945

    Summer of Trinity - Week ending June 30, 1945
    Jun 30 2025
    This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 30th, 1945. Sunday, June 24,1945 - 22 Days Before Trinity https://stanislavs.org/victory-parade-in-moscow-on-june-24-1945/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Moscow_Victory_Parade Monday, June 25,1945 - 21 Days Before Trinity Let There Be Light - assigned to John Huston on June 25 1945 https://catalog.afi.com/Film/24480-LET-THEREBELIGHT?sid=f9d82931-bb26-4320-ab6d-68db16b9b687&sr=16.411694&cp=1&pos=0 Tuesday, June 26,1945 - 20 Days Before Trinity https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-n-charter-signed While the war continued, and there was certainly concerns of all sorts that it might not be over soon - that Operation Downfall might be necessary, a full amphibious invasion of Japan to occupy and subordinate it on bayonet and rifle - there were definite expectations of hope. When representatives of 50 nations came to San Francisco to sign the Charter of the United Nations, it was about the peace after, even if the peace hadn’t arrived, yet. It will take some time yet for the headquarters to be built, the general assembly brought together, for it to be a significant part of world diplomacy, but this day is the start of the United Nations. Wednesday, June 27,1945 - 19 Days Before Trinity Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard sends the following memorandum concerning the use of the atomic bomb. argues that the Japanese should be given some warning ahead of the use of the weapon. https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/manhattan-project/bard-memo.html Thursday, June 28,1945 - 18 Days Before Trinity The Ford Willow Run line produces its last B-24 Liberator https://www.motorcities.org/story-of-the-week/2021/remember-ford-motor-company-s-post-war-years-1946-1955 https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/expert-sets/101765 https://detroithistorical.org/things-do/events-calendar/events-listing/story-willow-run “One every 55 minutes” https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/mhugl/2015/10/11/willow-run-b24-liberator/ “The Flying Coffin” https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/watch-fords-willow-run-plant-churn-out-a-b-24-every-55-minutes/ “The story of willow run” on Youtube https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/willow-run-airplane-plant/ “44-51928 was flown directly to a storage facility, then later, to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation site at Kingman, Arizona, where it was scrapped.” The picture of 44-51928 shows very small but distinct shadows, indicating that it did in fact get rolled out right around noon. Friday, June 29,1945 - 17 Days Before Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Magic_Carpet - return of personnel from Europe begins. Saturday, June 30,1945 - 16 Days Before Trinity https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/ https://80.stripes.com/archives/sure-campaigns-over-dont-forget-mop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa Okinawa area (per Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island Area 1,199[1] km2 (463 sq mi) as of 1 October 2018[2] Honshu area (ditto) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honshu Area 227,960[1] km2 (88,020 sq mi) Summer of Trinity is a part of Mapping History here on The Latest Generation.
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    11 min
  • Summer of Trinity - Week ending June 23, 1945

    Summer of Trinity - Week ending June 23, 1945
    Jun 23 2025

    This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 23, 1945.

    Sunday, June 17,1945 - 29 Days Before Trinity

    It’s the 78th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

    https://archive.org/details/FirstBoxingMatchesOnOkinawa

    Monday, June 18,1945 - 28 Days Before Trinity

    It’s the 79th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

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

    The American submarine USS Bonefish was sunk in Toyama Bay by Japanese warships.

    Although it still has not been scheduled, the Trinity test is now 4 weeks away.

    Tuesday, June 19,1945 - 27 Days Before Trinity

    It is the 80th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

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

    https://catalog.archives.gov/id/205583221

    Wednesday, June 20,1945 - 26 Days Before Trinity

    It is the 81st day of the Battle of Okinawa.

    http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/backfire.html

    Return of troops on June 20 - picture came from this tweet.

    https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1483460234307850249
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    10 min

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