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ROBERT J. STOCK, 83, a life long resident of Fort Wayne, passed away Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007, due to natural causes in Chicago, Ill. Surviving are his two children Hellen Stock of St. Louis, Mo and Wade Stock of Chicago. Memorial service is 11:30 a.m. Friday in Greenlawn, Cemetary, 6600 Covington Road. Any questions may be directed to (773)368-1661.

Bob Stock took the official picture of the Nagasak: mushroom cloud from the tail of the Great Artiste B-29.
Bill Jones - A-Bombs aerial photog. [[BJ?]]

AGASAKI-ATOM BOMB NO. 2

The bomb which seared Nagasaki with its tremendous flash of fiery light spouted a ir of black smoke out of which there seethed a great, swirling mushroom of gray ke, luminous with flashing flame-rising to 40,000 feet in less than eight minutes.
Photo by Bob Stock
Whitley County, Indiana

Seventy-five hours after the Hiroshima holocaust, Nagasaki major port and war industries center on Japan's home island of Kyushu, felt the fury of bomb No.2. On Aug. 10, one day later, the Nippons began negotiations for surrender.
The explosion was accompanied by a blinding flash described as "more brilliant than the noonday sun." The bomb was called an 
"improved type." While it destroyed a smaller area than in Hiroshima-because the hills enclosing the target restricted the spread of the blast-the effects were more intense.
Thirty-nine per cent of the buildings and houses were destroyed. Thirty-nine thousand died (the pre-bomb population was 195,000) and 25,000 were injured.

Those who survived. Jap families built shacks from scraps wreckage-often on the spot where their former homes stood.

Completely demolished was the huge Mitsubishi Steel an Arms Works in the southern end of the industrial valley. The th torpedo plant in the north it was the principal target. Bomb No. stuck midway between and scored a bull's-eye in razing both.
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