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Hiroshima droping the bomb media type="youtube" key="NF4LQaWJRDg" width="425" height="350" align="right"In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named //Enola Gay// took off from and headed north by northwest toward Japan. The bomber's primary target was the **city of Hiroshima**, located on the deltas of southwestern Honshu Island facing the Inland Sea. Hiroshima had a civilian population of almost 300,000 and was an important military center, containing about 43,000 soldiers. nagasaki