Summer of Trinity - Week Ending August 11, 1945

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. This is an update, edited to fix some extraneous noise in the original version. 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