U.S. Army aircraft destroyed by Japanese raiders at Wheeler Air Field. Photographed later in the day on  December 7, 1941, following the end of the attacks.
Wreckage includes at least one P-40 and a twin-engine amphibian. Note the wrecked hangar in the background.



Wheeler Air Field, Hawaii

D-Day June 6, 1944: U.S. bombers fly over invasion fleet

U.S. Bombers

16 July, 1945 - the Manhattan Project ushers Humanity across the Rubicon, with the first atmospheric test of a nuclear weapon - the implosive/explosive plutonium device known as the "Gadget".  Within a month, the fruits of "Manhattan" would be falling on Japan.

The Director of the Manhattan Project, Dr Robert Oppenheimer, was moved to recall a quote from the Bhagavad-Gita, where Shiva says - 

"If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky,
That would be like the splendour of the Mighty One.
I am become Death,
The Shatterer of Worlds."

He perhaps would have done well to recall a quote from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" - "What's done is done - it  cannot be undone ...".  In sadness, JR.