Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.

Just for a different perspective.

June 17 to June 23, 1945

This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 23, 1945.

Sunday, June 17,1945 - 29 Days Before Trinity

It's the 78th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

https://archive.org/details/FirstBoxingMatchesOnOkinawa

Monday, June 18,1945 - 28 Days Before Trinity

It's the 79th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bolivar_Buckner_Jr.

The American submarine USS Bonefish was sunk in Toyama Bay by Japanese warships.

Although it still has not been scheduled, the Trinity test is now 4 weeks away.

Tuesday, June 19,1945 - 27 Days Before Trinity

It is the 80th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Mayfield

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/205583221

Wednesday, June 20,1945 - 26 Days Before Trinity

It is the 81st day of the Battle of Okinawa.

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/backfire.html

Return of troops on June 20 - picture came from this tweet.

https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1483460234307850249

Thursday, June 21,1945 - 25 Days Before Trinity

It is the 82nd day of the Battle of Okinawa.

After being decommissioned due to extensive damage suffered a month earlier, The American destroyer USS Barry was being towed to a location where it would serve as a decoy for Japanese kamikaze attacks. It was sunk northwest of Okinawa by a Japanese kamikaze attack. It is the n+3rd Allied ship sunk since the capitulation of Nazi Germany.

Friday, June 22,1945 - 24 Days Before Trinity

Okinawa is captured after 83 days of battle. The defending generals commit seppuku. Emperor Hirohito tells his counselors that he is interested in concrete plans to end the war.

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa

Percy Faith and his Orchestra record "Capullito_de_aleli" for Decca records in New York, New York

https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000301162/72945-Capullito_de_aleli

Eisenhower approves a project where German rocket engineers will launch a V-2, with a dummy warhead, to show the Allies how they worked and what was needed for a successful launch.

Stalin announces a military parade, cerebrating the victory over Nazi Germany to be held in Moscow two days later, on June 24th.

Saturday, June 23,1945 - 23 Days Before Trinity

Kid who survived freezing experiments at Dachau - literally chopped out of ice seven times.

https://www.dearfolksies.com/dachau-concentration-camp-june-6-june-26-1945/6/

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.

Just for a different perspective.

Summer of Trinity is a daily look at the summer of 1945, when the Second World War ended.

June 3, 1945. Sunday.

It is the 64th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

June 4, 1945. Monday.

It is the 65th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

Churchill's Gestapo speech

June 5, 1945. Tuesday

It is the 66th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

June 6, 1945. Wednesday

It is the 67th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

It is the one-year anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy that culminated one month ago in the surrender of Germany.

Dr. Bine's letters can be found at dearfolksies.com

https://www.dearfolksies.com/dachau-concentration-camp-june-6-june-26-1945/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

June 7, 1945. Thursday

It is the 68th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

Didn't include Robert M. McTureous, Jr, but he has a story of his own.

June 8, 1945. Friday

It is one month since the surrender of Germany.

It is the 69th day of the Battle of Okinawa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Salute_(AM-294)

On Okinawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Faulkner_Lester dies in combat for actions for which he would posthumously receive the Medal of Honor

June 9, 1945. Saturday

A classified document is created within the United States War department, named "Installations in Japan Not To Be Bombed."

http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/recovery/Installations_in_Japan_Not_To_Be_Bombed_1945-06-09.pdf

As this week ends, the Trinity atomic bomb test has not yet been scheduled. However, it is only 37 days away.

Summer of Trinity is a part of Mapping History here on The Latest Generation.

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.

Just for a different perspective.

A look at each day between Memorial Day and Labor Day, 1945 - the six weeks on either side of the Trinity test on July 16.

(For future weeks, we'll have an entry for each day, but we already did May 1945 in the previous episode.)

May 30, 1945. Wednesday. Memorial Day. It is the 60th day of the Battle of Okinawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day

May 31, 1945. Thursday. It is the 61st day of the battle of Okinawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_B._Craft

June 1, 1945 Friday. It is the 62nd day of the Battle of Okinawa.

Times around the world, as the meeting of the Interim Committee starts, 11AM in Washington DC

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/notes-meeting-interim-committee?documentid=NA&pagenumber=9

The members of the Interim Committee include (not a complete list)

Mr. George H. Bucher, President of Westinghouse - manufacture of equipment for the electromagnetic process.

Mr.Walter S. Carpenter, President of Du Pont Company - construction of the Hanford Project.

Mr. James Rafferty, Vice President of Union Carbide - construction and operation of gas diffusion plant in Clinton.

Mr. James White, President of Tennessee Eastman - production of basic chemicals and construction of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex

The committee also discussed how difficult it would be for the Soviet Union to replicate the work that had been done on the atomic bomb.

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/notes-meeting-interim-committee?documentid=NA&pagenumber=4

A introduction to the state of the world in May 1945, as part of a re-run of Summer of Trinity.

• FDR is dead.
• Truman is President, only three months after he became vice-president.
• The Battle of Okinawa is ongoing - it had started on April 1st.
• USS Indianapolis is in San Francisco for repairs from a kamikaze attack in the waters around Okinawa, just before the invasion began.
• The USSR has just ended its non-agression pact with the Empire of Japan.
• Mussoline is dead, killed on April 28
• Hitler is dead by suicide on April 30.
• Nazi Germany is defeated on May 8.
• The long-term coalition government in the UK ends with the victory over Germany.
• Churchill has requested that elections be held, around the beginning of July.
• In Los Alamos, the Manhattan Project team awaits deliveries of uranium and plutonium to use in their Little Boy and Fat Man designs.
• And although nobody realizes it for certain, the war is nearly over.

Summer of Trinity is a look at the summer of 1945, between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Halfway between those dates, on July 16, was the Trinity atomic weapon test - but a lot was happening all around the world, during the 6 weeks before and after Trinity.

That's what this series will be about.

This is just for fun, with no real generational connection except that both Abraham Lincoln and George Lucas are from Prophet generations. (Boom for Lucas, Transcendental for Lincoln.) And, as such, it's not surprising that a similar arrangement works for both of them.

If you like Star Wars and Aaron Copland, you may enjoy it.

Fun fact: George Lucas' birthday is May 14, 1944, which was the two-year anniversary of the premiere of Lincoln Portrait.

Here's where I found the quotations:

The first two are from different sections of a look back at The Phantom Menace:

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-oral-history)

The "barbarians" quote is from testimony before the Senate in March 1988 - here's the text I used, from Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1988_George_Lucas_testimony_before_United_States_Senate

It's not clear that Lucas every actually said the thing about the sledgehammer, but it turns out the fourth section in Lincoln Portrait isn't well sourced either. And in both cases, it's certainly something they might have said.

I originally found the last bit here:

https://www.biography.com/news/george-lucas-star-wars-facts

But it turns out it was from a New York Times interview of George Lucas while he was FILMING Star Wars in 1976.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/12/archives/from-american-graffiti-to-outer-space.html

It's well worth the read.

14 09 27 -- The Battle of Flowers parade was my second parade ever. It was April 27, 1979, in San Antonio, Texas, part of "Fiesta," an annual series of events in San Antonio. I was there with my high school band, on a trip we'd been looking forward to all year.

https://battleofflowers.org/events/

The numbering convention is an adaptation of the method used in Defending Your Life. In the movie its a way to refer to specific days in a lifetime while reviewing events that may cover any day within a life. The first number is my age in years on the day this happened, the second is the month number within that year (i.e. the number of months since my previous birthday), and the third is the day within the month. Because I was born at the end of the month, I've simply used the day of that month e.g. for November 11 the month number is 4 and the day number is 11

Although the date is described within the movie as being "Daniels nth year," the actual year used is his age at that point. This means that, for example, 1/1/1 is his first birthday: the first day of the first month when he turned 1., This is noted as a goof on IMDB ( as described, 1/1/1 would be the first day of his first year I.e. the day he was born) but ... having tried to figure it myself, this method turns out to be easier to calculate and more useful to understand about when events are happening.

Note that 14 09 27 is NOT "14 years, plus 4 months plus 11 days" but "the 27th day of the 9th month after my 14th birthday."

A Twitter thread from a day I was thinking about the Battle of Flowers.

On WIkipedia, you can find what a Sousaphone looks like.

Repo Man and Plain Wrap according to IMDB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting

Hang On Sloopy is not mentioned here and there was no way for me to have included the relevant anecdote in the episode, but I did want to at least have some reference to it. Suffice it to say that it was a song we frequently played at football games.