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August 8th, 1945. Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1518829
Construction completed on the prototype “Mobile Armor Suit”, codenamed “Cub”,
intended to be the Imperial Army’s ultimate weapon for defeating any invasion of
the home islands.
But it would never leave its hangar bay.
The next day it was destroyed with the rest of Nagasaki by the second atomic
bomb.
B-29 pilot’s report:
“The bomb burst with a blinding flash and a huge column of black smoke swirled
up toward us. Out of this column of smoke there boiled a great swirling mushroom
of gray smoke, luminous with red, flashing flame, that reached to 40,000 feet in
less than 8 minutes. Below through the clouds we could see the pall of black
smoke ringed with fire that covered what had been the industrial area of
Nagasaki.”
K
ps - Very neat idea with the actively cooled lighting.
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