Hiroshima, Nagasaki And Kokura, The Luckiest City On Earth

Hiroshima.
Was the first.
Nagasaki.
Was the second.
Many people have never heard of Kokura.
Let alone can find it on any map.
For this now most fortunate city was originally,
The intended second target city to be,
Cruelly obliterated after Hiroshima.
Nagasaki was only the secondary target.
If,
And only if,
Kokura was unsuitable for a bombing attack run,
If it's bomb aim point was obscured and impaired.
Which it was by smoke and clouds.
And at 10.30 A.M August 9th 1945,
After three bombing runs to no avail.
With anti-aircraft fire getting closer.
As Japanese fighters could be seen climbing to intercept.
And now with limited fuel.
The Boeing B29 Superfortress,
Named Bockscar by it's crew,
Commanded by Major Charles Sweeney.
Departed the airspace of the city of Kokura.
To it's secondary target of that morning.
Twenty minutes later at 10.50 A.M.
This aircraft reached it's secondary target.
And dropped the world's second atomic bomb.
A plutonium bomb code named Fat Man.
On the city and people of Nagasaki.
Sweeney missed the designated bomb aim point by 3 kilometres.
And after landing he was met by General Curtis LeMay,
Who simply said,
' You fucked up Chuck.'
Even by missing the central bomb aim point by 3 kilometres,
Between 39,000 and 80,000 were killed in Nagasaki.
And between 90,000 and 146,000 were killed in Hiroshima.
Roughly half the deaths in each city occurred on the first day.
Kokura is the luckiest city on earth.