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Each of these people who died in had at least some small connection to history:. George Robert Stibitz, credited by many as the father of the modern digital computer. Age William E. Edwards, who rescued Lt.

By the summer of , World War II had raged across several continents for six years, beginning when German forces invaded Poland in To a world grown weary of death and destruction, the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 8, , was welcome news. Japan, however, vowed to fight to the very end. Their resolve was evident in the Battle of Okinawa: By the time it ended in June, Allied forces lost more than 14, soldiers and Japan's military suffered more than 77, deaths — plus the loss of an estimated , Japanese civilians. Against this backdrop, Allied forces drew up plans for Operation Downfall, a large-scale invasion of Japan.

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Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project , the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, , in the Trinity test in New Mexico. Oppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita : "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.