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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Devastated Europe
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Germany and England were heavily bombed - France, Italy, etc. were not.
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Japan, with the exception of the two cities visited by Enola Gay,
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The
Enola Gay bombed Hiroshima, the
Bockscar bombed Nagasaki and has been housed at the USAF museum in Dayton, OH for many years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar. It was there when I was a kid, with a description plaque no different than any other displayed airplane, years before the big controversy over the Enola Gay being put on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
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was less physically damaged
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As soon as the B-29 was functional in 1944, all major Japanese cities were quickly and completely destroyed by conventional U.S. bombing. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relatively small but were among the few left untouched by summer of 1945. Kyoto was spared for cultural reasons.