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The 509th Composite Group operated from the island of Tinian in the western Pacific from June to November 1945. On 6 August 1945, a B-29 of the 393rd Bomb Squadron dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, another B-29 of the squadron dropped the second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. These missions were instrumental in Japan's decision to surrender, thus ending World War II.
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