Happy Birthday to “give ‘em hell Harry”
Harry S Truman
Born in Missouri on 08 MAY 1884, Harry S. Truman – 33rd President of the United States who ended WW II in the Pacific by ordering the dropping the first atomic bomb – a B29 bomber, the Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan and days later the B29 bomber Bockscar dropped the second “Fat Man” on Nagasaki, Japan
We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark.
—Harry Truman, writing about the atomic bomb in his diary
On 26 July 1948, President Truman used an executive order to begin desegregation of the US military.
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