Enola for DD?

Sorry not dad but dd

Sorry but Enola Gay came straight to mind imagine the playground your dad in a circle of bitches and they will be singing Enola Gay Enola Gay.

It just makes me think of Ebola.

And Granola

But why does it matter if people are alone? If it spelt lonely I'd understand but what's wrong with alone? I just don't get it

@Theradioison and @ Kitkatsrophe

I watched this film just before this thread

@Theradioison

What's the obsession with the word Alone being spelled backwards fhs?

As it happens my girls names are both palindromes so that's a win win for us

What's the obsession with the word Alone being spelled backwards fhs?

Ebola. Just don't.

I like the sound of the word but wouldn't call my child something that spelled alone backwards, sounds kind of sad

Terrible I know but if the debate here has widened onto justifying or not the A-bomb raids and casualty figures are being quoted I take it we're aware that well prior to the Hiroshima bombing the Americans were levelling the major Japanese cities, systematically, one by one, in an attempt to make the Japanese surrender and to prevent a ground campaign on the Home Islands.

It's generally recognised the most lethal air raid in history wasn't Hiroshima or Nagasaki, it was the one on Tokyo on 9th-10th March 1945..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

Enola Gay was the first thing that came to my mind and i’m 34. Not an obscure song by any stretch.

Hopefully there won't be a rash of baby Enolas because everyone they tell will look horrified and uncomfortable and the parents will see the error of their ways

it's horrid ... Sorry + there will be a trend of enolas born in the next 18months so it will date very quickly ..xxx congratulations on your pregnancy x

I was recommending the film to someone and it autocorrected to Ebola. I wouldn't ...

'some obscure 80s song'

Wasn't really that obscure - it was an international hit and sold more than 5 million copies. Did you see how many posters here were able to instantly sing the song as soon as the thread name popped up? I'm one of them.

Thanks @sashh
I've ordered the DVD "All That Remains " and "The Bells of Nagasaki" which I read at school
Also
Antony Beevor "The Second World War"
"The Second World Wars" by Victor Davis Hanson
I'm hunting a UK region copy of the 1995 film "Hiroshima" by Kurahara.

For anyone catching up with this thread, it is fair to say the spelling Enola would trigger distressing thoughts due to it being a rare name used for the Hiroshima bomber.
The name is originally from the Irish Gaelic language name Fhionnuala which means "fair shoulders". Noone except an Old Irish geek would spot the connexion from the spelling although they sound alike, give or take the F, and there are lots of wonderful Fionnuala role models.
Other uncontroversial alternatives would be:

Leona
Elyona
Yola
Lola
Wynona
Solo
Ysola
Onora

@SeanCailleach

This gives short versions of various arguments about the bombs.

www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/atomic-bomb-hiroshima-nagasaki-justified-us-debate-bombs-death-toll-japan-how-many-died-nuclear/

SeanCailleach

I will admit most of my information is second hand. My carer was taking a Japanese course with a uni in Sweden and did a project on the Hibakusha, I proof read it for him and we had a lot of discussions.

He's been to Japan a few times and visited the peace garden.

Which books have you ordered? There is the saying that history is written by the victors so I would include at least one Japanese author.

@sashh I've now ordered a couple of history books about the 2nd World War. I only have memoirs, which say that FatMan was dropped at about 11am on 9 August. Wikipedia says the Russians invaded Manchuria the same day. The Japanese agreed to Potsdam Declaration on August 15th. Do you have different sources?

The prisoners of war in Nagasaki were digging their own grave-pit when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August. At the same time, Nagasaki was firebombed, and the camp was damaged, so the guards had the prisoners stop digging their mass grave-pit and clean up the mess. That's what they were doing 3 days later when they saw Bockskar and another plane fly over. The air raid sirens were sounded, then the planes flew off. When the prisoners saw the planes come back at 11, they ran into the bunkers, but the Japanese didn't sound the air raid sirens, apparently thinking they were on a recconnaisance mission. So most of the prisoners survived although everyone above ground in the camp was killed.

I fell asleep in that film. The main girl was quite annoying tbh. That and the fact the name is linked with the cruel death of thousands of people would put me right off It personally.

Blueberrypie, I would quit while you are ahead(ish).

(I got the million because the the affect of radiation)

I wouldn’t even consider it.
I also thought the film was pants.

I have to admit I didn’t know it was THE plane that killed almost over a million people with one atomic bomb. I thought it one of the war world II plane

On the other hand, become of the bombing i wouldn’t use it