Mark Woodbury
ASIN: B00IN3QBEA
Publisher: Skyhigh Media, LLC
Pages: 282
Trinity Flight is the never before told World War 2 true story of a nighttime training flight to Alamogordo, New Mexico where three young pilots in AT-6 aircraft accidentally flew over the worst place on earth at the worst possible time—July 16, 1945, 5:29 AM above the Trinity test site just as the World’s first atomic bomb was detonated. It’s the harrowing saga of Army Air Corps warfare training during the time of Oppenheimer’s Manhattan project and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From chemical warfare accidents to unimaginable atomic radiation poisoning, it reveals a secret part of World War 2 history that has been hidden for decades under threats of court-martial and treason.This captivating account tells of an incredible combination of events that cast these pilots into history as the first atomic veterans of World War 2. Though most people think of D Day or ...