That's why I feel like now is an opportunity for people to imagine (wartime life) as their own experience,' she said.Watanave hopes that using new technology will help younger Japanese feel more of an attachment to those who lived through the war. 'Little Boy' - the first nuclear weapon used in war - was dropped on the city, killing between between 90,000 and 146,000 people. 'Our everyday lives have been stolen away by the coronavirus in a flash, which I think resembles what happened in the war. The pilot of the Enola Gay was Colonel Paul W. Tibbetts, who had served in Europe and North Africa earlier in the war and was assigned to the atomic bomb project in 1944. The explosion yield of the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima has been pegged between 12 and 15 kilotons On Tuesday evening, a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut in what is believed to be one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history. HIROSHIMA: 75 years since atomic bomb obliterated city Back to video For him, the Second World War ended in late 1974 — 29 years after the Japanese Empire surrendered to the Allies. [In other words, the Hiroshima bomb has an outside range of 12-18 KT, and the Nagasaki bomb an outside range of 18.9-23.1 KT.] In this US Navy's black and white photo digitally colourised and published by Anju Niwata and Hidenori Watanave, USS Franklin is provided assistance by the USS Santa Fe after the aircraft carrier had been hit and set afire by a single Japanese dive bomber, during the Okinawa invasion, on March 19, 1945US Army and Coast Guardsmen stand at attention as the American flag is raised over Akashima, Japan on April 2, 1945, an an island a few miles from Okinawa.

Japanese Emperor Hirohito (right), meets General Douglas MacArthur (left) at the US Embassy in Tokyo on September 27, 1945. A second bomb, 'Fat Man,' dropped over Nagasaki three days after Hiroshima exploded with the force of 21 kilotons of TNT, killing another 70,000 people and finally prompting Japan's surrender. The history of Hiroshima dates back to the end of the 6th century and the current borders of the city were established in 1876, but the city was almost completely destroyed by the bomb They also look through historical documents and archives that show what the colours should look like. US troops launched their attack on Iwo Jima in February 1945, aiming to secure its airfields for bombing missions and prevent it from being used as a radar station to intercept US air raids The photos have been colorized by student Anju Niwata and his professor Hidenori Watanave and survivor Tokuso Hamai.When Tokuso Hamai saw the colourised version of a picnic held under cherry tree blossoms sometime before World War II, forgotten memories of family members, most of whom died in the atomic bombing, came pouring out. A second bomb, 'Fat Man,' dropped over Nagasaki three days after Hiroshima exploded with the force of 21 kilotons of TNT, killing another 70,000 people and finally prompting Japan's surrender. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in western Japan on Aug 6, 1945 by the US bomber Enola Gay. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline?Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual.Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Injuries: Tens of thousands. This photo combination shows the digital colorization process used by photo restorers Anju Niwata and Hidenori Watanave (left) and the original black and white image that Hiroshima resident Hisashi Takahashi provided of his parents. Saturday marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, but for many in Japan August 6 remains a more important date. Local resident Hisashi Takahashi, covering his face with watermelon in the center, supplied this photo of his family and relatives posing while they eat watermelon around 1932 in Hiroshima, western Japan. 'In colourised photos, people come to life,' said Hamai, now 86. Smoke rises around 20,000 feet above Hiroshima after the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city by the United States on August 6, 1945. Death toll: 80,000 people. US Army and Coast Guardsmen stand to attention as the American flag is raised over Akashima, Japan on April 2, 1945, the little island, only a few miles from Okinawa. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook.You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. 'By the time we mark the 80th or 85th anniversary, we need to come up with a new way of expressing (wartime memories). On the ground moments before the blast it was a calm and sunny Monday morning. Las Vegas hospital workers call for probe into conditions during pandemic After the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, workers on Tinian island labored intensely to put the finishing touches on the Fat Man bomb and prepare it for use. After serving in Europe and North Africa earlier in the war, Tibbets was assigned to the atomic bomb project in 1944 and was put in charge of flight tests before he dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. The island was the venue for the first formal surrender of a Japanese Imperial Army garrison and the 24th Infantry Regiment which accepted the surrender remained on Okinawa until 1946 The first of 20 Japanese emerges from an Iwo Jima cave with his hands in the air on April 5, 1945. 'I often played near [the picnic site], and sometimes I would do some naughty things and get scolded by my father. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theaterHiroshima resident Hisashi Takahashi and his parents, grandmother and younger brother pose for a photograph in a flower bed of dandelions in 1935. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. The heat was so extreme that the only remains of some of Hiroshima's victims were shadows etched into stone where they had last been standing.

Their project, 'Rebooting Memories,' features about 350 monochrome images taken before, during and after the war.

After supervising flight tests and tactical training for the use of the bomb, Tibbetts flew the world's first atomic bomb mission on August 6 and dropped Little Boy on the city. INTRODUCTION