*McDilda, who was from Dunnellon, Florida, was a P-51 fighter pilot. On August 8, 1945, two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, his plane was shot down during a strafing mission over Osaka and he was taken prisoner.*
*After his capture, McDilda was paraded through the streets of Osaka, where he was blindfolded and beaten by civilians. He was then interrogated by the Kempeitai, the Japanese military police, who tortured McDilda in order to discover how many atomic bombs the Allies had and what the future targets were. McDilda, who knew nothing about the atomic bomb nor the Manhattan Project, initially admitted that he knew nothing about the atomic bombs, but, after a Japanese officer threatened to kill him, McDilda “confessed” that the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto, the only Japanese cities he knew the names of, within “the next few days”. McDilda’s “testimony” included the following nonsensical description of the A-bomb, which seemed to confuse it with an antimatter weapon:*
*As you know, when atoms are split, there are a lot of pluses and minuses released. Well, we’ve taken these and put them in a huge container and separated them from each other with a lead shield. When the box is dropped out of a plane, we melt the lead shield and the pluses and minuses come together. When that happens, it causes a tremendous bolt of lightning and all the atmosphere over a city is pushed back! Then when the atmosphere rolls back, it brings about a tremendous thunderclap, which knocks down everything beneath it.*
*This “confession” led the Japanese to consider McDilda a “Very Important Person” and he was flown to Tokyo the next morning, where he was interrogated by a civilian scientist, who was a graduate of the City College of New York. The interrogator quickly realized McDilda knew nothing of nuclear fission and was giving fake testimony. McDilda explained that he had told his Osaka questioners that he knew nothing, but when that was not accepted, he had to “tell the lie to stay alive”. McDilda was taken to a cell and fed, and awaited his fate; but he was rescued from the prisoner-of-war camp in Ōmori nineteen days later, after it was captured by the 4th Marine Regiment. The move to Tokyo had probably saved McDilda’s life; after the announcement of the Japanese surrender, fifty U.S. soldiers imprisoned in Osaka were executed by Japanese soldiers.*
*This case has been cited as evidence that interrogational torture is ineffective, as his “confession” might have been counterproductive to Japan’s intelligence-gathering.*
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Great meme
junrod0079 on
A similar thing happened in halo when a covenant shipmaster interrogated a unsc colonel who lied about a super duper secret hidden forerunner site in Cleveland ohio wasting valuable time and resources when the covenant invaded earth to capture new Mombasa
CIemson on
What a last name. Sounds like how a southern father would say Dildo
Trowj on
Hey, whatever it takes to keep one from being vivisected is worth it
KrackerJoe on
Oof, gotta feel bad for that last name tho
ForeverCrunkIWantToB on
He was just one letter away from “McDildo.”
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Meanwhile John Campbell, editor of *Astounding Science Fiction* had his office raided after they published a story called *Deadline* which described an atomic bomb in some detail in 1943.
The FBI raided the office and found nothing secret. But Campbell explained that he pushed his authors to read science publications and much discussion was had on splitting atoms.
Finally he explained that he knew they were doing something in Los Alamos, specifically because so many of their subscribers moved there.
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[From Wikipedia:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_McDilda)
*McDilda, who was from Dunnellon, Florida, was a P-51 fighter pilot. On August 8, 1945, two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, his plane was shot down during a strafing mission over Osaka and he was taken prisoner.*
*After his capture, McDilda was paraded through the streets of Osaka, where he was blindfolded and beaten by civilians. He was then interrogated by the Kempeitai, the Japanese military police, who tortured McDilda in order to discover how many atomic bombs the Allies had and what the future targets were. McDilda, who knew nothing about the atomic bomb nor the Manhattan Project, initially admitted that he knew nothing about the atomic bombs, but, after a Japanese officer threatened to kill him, McDilda “confessed” that the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto, the only Japanese cities he knew the names of, within “the next few days”. McDilda’s “testimony” included the following nonsensical description of the A-bomb, which seemed to confuse it with an antimatter weapon:*
*As you know, when atoms are split, there are a lot of pluses and minuses released. Well, we’ve taken these and put them in a huge container and separated them from each other with a lead shield. When the box is dropped out of a plane, we melt the lead shield and the pluses and minuses come together. When that happens, it causes a tremendous bolt of lightning and all the atmosphere over a city is pushed back! Then when the atmosphere rolls back, it brings about a tremendous thunderclap, which knocks down everything beneath it.*
*This “confession” led the Japanese to consider McDilda a “Very Important Person” and he was flown to Tokyo the next morning, where he was interrogated by a civilian scientist, who was a graduate of the City College of New York. The interrogator quickly realized McDilda knew nothing of nuclear fission and was giving fake testimony. McDilda explained that he had told his Osaka questioners that he knew nothing, but when that was not accepted, he had to “tell the lie to stay alive”. McDilda was taken to a cell and fed, and awaited his fate; but he was rescued from the prisoner-of-war camp in Ōmori nineteen days later, after it was captured by the 4th Marine Regiment. The move to Tokyo had probably saved McDilda’s life; after the announcement of the Japanese surrender, fifty U.S. soldiers imprisoned in Osaka were executed by Japanese soldiers.*
*This case has been cited as evidence that interrogational torture is ineffective, as his “confession” might have been counterproductive to Japan’s intelligence-gathering.*
Great meme
A similar thing happened in halo when a covenant shipmaster interrogated a unsc colonel who lied about a super duper secret hidden forerunner site in Cleveland ohio wasting valuable time and resources when the covenant invaded earth to capture new Mombasa
What a last name. Sounds like how a southern father would say Dildo
Hey, whatever it takes to keep one from being vivisected is worth it
Oof, gotta feel bad for that last name tho
He was just one letter away from “McDildo.”
Meanwhile John Campbell, editor of *Astounding Science Fiction* had his office raided after they published a story called *Deadline* which described an atomic bomb in some detail in 1943.
The FBI raided the office and found nothing secret. But Campbell explained that he pushed his authors to read science publications and much discussion was had on splitting atoms.
Finally he explained that he knew they were doing something in Los Alamos, specifically because so many of their subscribers moved there.