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  • Summer of Trinity - Week Ending August 25, 1945

    Summer of Trinity - Week Ending August 25, 1945
    2025/08/30
    This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday August 25, 1945. I've endeavored to have new episodes out every Monday, the same day (80 years later) as the last day of the weeks described in each. This week is the latest one yet, going out Saturday instead. My initial thought was that "it wasn't a very interesting week" but quickly realized how interesting it really was. The Daghlian criticality incident, happening so soon after all three of the first atomic detonations, so often is treated as simply an industrial accident, but it's right in the middle of this very busy month. Ho Chi Minh is consolidating his authority over Vietnam, in direct response to the power vacuum caused by Japan's surrender, and at breakneck speed. The Chinese Civil War has resumed, the Soviet Union continues to pursue a war that is barely two weeks old, colonial powers are returning to their former areas of power - yet before this, I'd hardly realized how much was happening in there. I daresay one could put together an intensive college-level semester course on "The End of World War II, August 15-September 2," and spend a week on each day, looking at all of the machinery of war, diplomacy, science, and politics being upended in that time, and how it affected the next century. That may be the reason that it's rarely covered: So much is happening that a manageable storyline can't be concocted that ties it all together. And because of that, every single day of it needs intensive research to discuss intelligently. Which is the real answer to how it ended up short. In any case, here is the next episode. Since the surrender ceremony is on Sunday, I'm currently planning on including that in the next episode (so 8 days instead of 7, ending on Sunday instead of Saturday). Sunday, August 19,1945 - 34 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yongjiazhen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_assault_on_Maoka Monday, August 20,1945 - 35 Days After Trinity When I was younger, I remember references to "quisling" as a traitor. It stopped being used, though, and it now takes some research to remember who he was and why he, so quickly, became that noun of choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Harriman informs Truman of the gift of “A framed photograph of a portrait of Stalin” presumably a response to the picture received three weeks earlier. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/node/349075 Tuesday, August 21,1945 - 36 Days After Trinity Daghlian Criticality accident (Demon Core) - he would die 25 days later, in mid September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Daghlian https://members.tripod.com/~Arnold_Dion/Daghlian/accident.html An estimate of radiation doses for Hiroshima survivors. Reading through other stories, though - specifically the New Yorker's Hiroshima - it's clear that many people received lethal doses without being signficantly injured otherwise. https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=146517 This notes that the 100% lethal doses is 400 rem - one-tenth or even one percent of what Daghlian received. https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-emergencies/causes/radiation-thermometer.html Wednesday, August 22,1945 - 37 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Soviet_invasion_of_Hokkaido Thursday, August 23,1945 - 38 Days After Trinity Battle of Shumshu ends - Soviet victory over Japan, but Soviets had more casualties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shumshu Friday, August 24,1945 - 39 Days After Trinity https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/bullhead-i.html https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/alphabetical-listing/b/uss-bullhead--ss-332-0.html The Matsue incident - a group of young Japanese riot in opposition to the end of the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue_incident Saturday, August 25,1945 - 40 Days After Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication_of_Bảo_Đại https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_South_Sakhalin https://www.nytimes.com/1945/08/25/archives/submarine-bullhead-lost-java-sea-patrol-her-last.html Summer of Trinity is a part of Mapping History here on The Latest Generation.
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  • Summer of Trinity - Week Ending August 18, 1945

    Summer of Trinity - Week Ending August 18, 1945
    2025/08/21

    This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945. This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday August 18, 1945.

    Sunday, August 12,1945 - 27 Days After Trinity

    3 days after Nagasaki, 6 days after Hiroshima

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

    Dr. Bine notes the unexpected arrival of the ending of the war.

    https://www.dearfolksies.com/august-12-1945-75-years-ago-in-a-ww2-m-a-s-h-unit/

    Monday, August 13,1945 - 28 Days After Trinity, 1 week after Hiroshima

    https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/investigation-and-court-martial/court-of-inquiry.html

    https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/investigation-and-court-martial/court-of-inquiry-findings.html

    https://www.ussindianapolis.com/captain-mcvay

    Tuesday, August 14,1945 - 29 Days After Trinity

    Final pumpkin bomb sortie: 6 aircraft.

    Kyūjō incident

    The east coast of the United States is about 14 hours behind Japan, so while the surrender occurred in Japan on the 15th, the victory celebrations began in the US on the 14th.

    V-J Day in Times Square

    Wednesday, August 15,1945 - 30 Days After Trinity

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

    Thursday, August 16,1945 - 31 Days After Trinity

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

    Friday, August 17,1945 - 32 Days After Trinity

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

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

    Saturday, August 18,1945 - 33 Days After Trinity

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30966890/anthony-james-marchione
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  • Summer of Trinity - Week Ending August 11, 1945

    Summer of Trinity - Week Ending August 11, 1945
    2025/08/15
    This is Summer of Trinity - 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 August 11, 1945. Sunday, August 5,1945 - 20 Days After Trinity Pictures of the survivors of the USS Indianapolis https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/loss-of-uss-indianapolis-ca-35/album-of-survivors.html https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99227503/robert-lee-shipman https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148385896/frederick-elliott-harrison Monday, August 6,1945 - 21 Days After Trinity Pacific Theater Tinian 2:45AM - The squadron of bombers departs for a six-hour flight to Japan. Hiroshima Lombok Strait, near Bali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_losses_in_World_War_II European Theater https://www.dearfolksies.com/august-6-1945-75-years-ago-in-a-ww2-m-a-s-h-unit/ Coincidentally (I presume) this letter includes a “So it goes” He uses that idiom a few times in his letters, but this is the first time since 1943, and this is the only time he uses it just as is - other times he has a conjunction at the start (e.g. “But so it goes.”) https://www.dearfolksies.com/?s=%22so+it+goes%22&id=11367 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five (The bombing of Dresden that inspires parts of the novel was mid-February 1945.) Aboard the USS Augusta, Atlantic Ocean) Washington, District of Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Johnson https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-hiram-johnson-19450807-story.html Los Angeles 2:30PM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bong He was 24 years old. Tuesday, August 7,1945 - 22 Days After Trinity Next day, Hiroshima, Alone, seeking parents, finds A broken jizo https://www.scalar.oberlincollegelibrary.org/shikoku/shikoku-gors-angry-jizo-illustrations?path=the-angry-jizo A creative commons picture of a Jizo statue: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jizo_statue_at_Zōjō-ji.jpg https://mythopedia.com/topics/jizo Flower Robotics Inc. (robot: Posy) - the robot that shows up for a minute in the film Lost in Translation - comes up because it looks a bit like a Jizo. The description I found indicates it’s supposed to be a young child - like a 3-year-old at a wedding who carries a bouquet for the bride - but nothing about the Jizo similarity, so probably just an impression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nio Wednesday, August 8,1945 - 23 Days After Trinity It is three months since the surrender of Germany. Thursday, August 9,1945 - 24 Days After Trinity, 3 days after Hiroshima https://atomicphotographers.com/photographers/charles-levy/ Los Alamos Washington, District of Columbia San Francisco, California Pacific Theater https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1159799358650499072 Friday, August 10,1945 - 25 Days After Trinity Moscow, USSR August 10 heated discussion on surrender terms. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/68.pdf Washington DC https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6874336 Saturday, August 11,1945 - 26 Days After Trinity Motoko Sakama sees a newspaper headline saying that her father, the Mayor of Hiroshima, is one of those who had been killed by the atomic bombing on Monday. She realizes that other members of her family, including her daughter, may have died as well. https://www.nytimes.com/1945/08/12/archives/eisenhower-flies-to-moscow-fete-lead-soviet-forces-against-japanese.html
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