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Yes. That man died despite all the people trying to help him. Many of the dead were under the stand getting refreshments. They were unable to escape because the turnstiles were all locked. I would like to think health and safety has improved vastly since then. I have seen the clip of the actual fire. I don't want to criticise the commentator but he kept saying how the police were doing a marvellous job and ignored all the brave fans that were trying to save people too. Different mindset to now or maybe I am reading too much into it.

I recall watching the television and the commentator casually said that a small fire had brought the game to a halt. It was only later that the sheer horror was announced. I read the book "56" by Martin Fletcher who lost his brother, father, uncle and grandfather in the fire. Stuart McCall was one of the Bradford players that day and his father was injured. Terry Yorath was also injured but his daughter Gabby Logan was not. Thankfully Bradford City were not in the top flight at the time, with a requirement to pen everyone in like at Hillsborough. Otherwise the death toll might have thousands.

Of course I agree. I said so in my book. My lawyer will be contacting you shortly.

The question to ask is this - "What does Neil Armstrong have to do with any of this?"

Thanks for that previous puzzle. As soon as I looked for a restaurant with a name that ended in "Corner" it just popped up and there was US postal services near by. The slow bit was moving along until I got the right picture. Should have guessed it would be on an island! You did a Sanikiluaq on me. Anyway. Back to this picture. Not sure the church sign would be that useful although there is another sign nearby pointing to another landmark that you should recognise. Surprisingly the church is not that rural. Only a few minutes by train from a town that has a team in the English league. It is definitely not where you might expect it to be. I suspect you have seen this church. I certainly have although I have never been there.

https://earth.google.com/web/search/us+postal+service/@37.82982574,-75.98868917,2.96354651a,0d,59.99999995y,50.37511384h,75.94586041t,0r/data=CigiJgokCcx6Uure6kJAEZ0oeSo76UJAGWpWNxpl_lLAIasqkGCTAFPAIhoKFjhmYjY5dkdIb3c3TGZrZjNaNHZ0c2cQAg

They did think through the arguments of where to drop the bomb. They ruled out dropping it on an uninhabited area because there was always the risk that the Japanese might not bother to watch the spectacle - in which case the whole thing would have been a waste of time. Also there might be Japanese militants that might regard a soft target as soft and proof that the Americans were not up for the fight. In the end, they decided the targets had to be cities. Kokura was spared because it was cloudy. The pilot tried three times but gave up. He then went on to the secondary target Nagasaki, which was also cloudy but he did not have enough fuel to go anywhere with the bomb still on board (and he certainly did not want to land the plane with the bomb still on board) - so it was dropped on Nagasaki. He then flew on to land on Okinawa since he did not enough fuel to get back to Tinian.

More people died from conventional bombing in japan. Pretty sure they had more than two bombs, even the threat of more would be enough. Yes. More people died when Tokyo was bombed. However there was one big difference. When Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, none of the aircrew died. No planes were lost. Nobody had to bail out. How do you fight a war where you incur massive casualties and the enemy incurs none? Also what do you do when it only requires a single plane to deliver the bomb? Are you on the lookout for every single plane? What clues are there?

Didn't the yanks only have the two A-bombs which were dropped anyway? I'm sure I read a while back that had the Japanese not surrendered, an invasion would have been necessary as developing another a-bomb would have taken too long. Third bomb was planned for Sapporo in Hokkaido.

Make it memorable. For example ask people to identify 10 things where the name is missing such as famous album covers, fizzy drinks, cans of soup, football strips.

I have mentioned here before but I recall reading about a scientist who went to Moscow, met Stalin and gave a speech about the mating habits of butterflies. Stalin felt the speech went against communist ideology and ordered that the scientist be shot. Fortunately he escaped. Stalin was paranoid and virtually everyone he knew was in danger. He was also a big fan of the Molotov Ribbentrop Treaty. Up until the moment of invasion the Soviet Union was happily supplying fuel and materials to Nazi Germany. Strangely enough Soviet children were not taught about that in school.

The Japanese believed there would be one decisive battle that would win the war for them. That is what happened in 1905 when they defeated Russia. Even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki there were some who still felt they should carry on. An invasion of the home islands would have resulted in too many deaths of allied soldiers and they still occupied large parts of Asia at the end. Fortunately the emperor didn't want a third bomb landing on his house and so he told them to stop.

This looks like it might be Massachusetts but I can't find anything that looks the part.

The Republic of Ireland sounds like more fun. https://forthelifeofme-film.com/2019/07/30/the-most-bizarre-pow-camp-during-wwii-curragh/

Several ships were destroyed by a single bomb or torpedo. For example the flagships Arizona, Hood and Akagi.

It is not celebrating the war. It is celebrating the end of it. Yes we should engage more with the other countries and stop pretending we are somehow different while they are all much the same.

War to the east was what the Nazis always wanted. Countries to the west were invaded and subdued but Poland and Russia offered new land for the German people (Lebensraum) and if all went to plan this conquered land would have become part of a Greater Germany. The reverse happened and the Soviet Union gained new land. Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania but before the war it wasn't part of that country.

He has written a travel book though. I suspect that next time we see him he will be on some BBC travelogue show visiting countries nobody bothers to go to. Maybe Portillo is getting tired of all those train journeys. You never know.

Strange remark to make on a Football Forum!

He also got rid of a lot of the troops who made it to Germany and won the war for him. Unfortunately they had seen the west and been contaminated by the experience and so they had to go.

My point is that the war with Germany was up close and personal in a way that no other recent war had been.

The last V-2 to hit Britain was fired on 27 March 1945, so that was already over. Maybe so but did it come with a note to say no more were on the way? The war against Germany came to home for lots of people in the UK. After that it was back to wars in faraway places.

That's easy. Defeating Germany meant no more bombs or rockets landing on British soil.