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In , the year before the fiftieth anniversary of the bombings, it was announced that the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.!
The Jesuit Priests Who Survived Hiroshima
Seventy-five years ago — on Aug.
6, — a B Superfortress named the Enola Gay struck out across the Pacific and dropped a uranium atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” flattened buildings for miles in all directions. Tens of thousands of people were killed instantly.
Bombing and the explosion of the bombs told at the level of the story.
That strike and the subsequent atomic bomb attack by the U.S. on the city of Nagasaki three days later brought an end to World War II, as the Japanese military leaders realized that they could not win.
But in the midst of the devastation, near the hypocenter of the attack, eight Jesuit missionaries who were in their rectory survived.
Four of the priests whose lives were spared are known by name: Father Hugo Lassalle, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Father Hubert Schiffer and Father Hubert Cieslik sustained only minor injuries from shattered windows. None suffered hearing loss from the explosion.
Their church, Our Lady of the Assumption, suffered the des