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[[File:Sky Jack.jpg|thumb|left|The ''[[Sky Jack]]'' on the failed [[Kyoto]] bomb run. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') | [[File:Sky Jack.jpg|thumb|left|The ''[[Sky Jack]]'' on the failed [[Kyoto]] bomb run. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'')]]On [[5 August]] [[1945]], the ''[[Sky Jack]]'' took off from [[Iwo Jima]] and headed northwards towards Japan on a top secret mission to drop the first bomb, Big Momma, on [[Kyoto]]. Despite the secrecy, the ''Sky Jack'' was spotted by [[Japanese Zero]]s and attacked. All but three members of the crew were killed and the [[aircraft]] began rapidly losing [[fuel]] at a rate which meant it was not possible to reach Kyoto. The crew's only hope of survival was to reach the [[Ogasawara Islands]] but doing so risked the Japanese discovering the existence of the atomic bomb and potentially capturing it for their own use. [[Lasseter (Sky Jacks)|Captain Lasseter]] ordered the pay load to be dropped into the [[ocean]] and hoped that the other two bombs would be more successful. Before the crew could dispense with the bomb, the ''Sky Jack'' suddenly fell into a [[black hole]], where the crew spent three years before the [[Eleventh Doctor]] returned them home. Kyoto was spared and the details of Big Momma and the bomb run would remain a secret. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') | ||
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[[File:VJ Day.jpg|thumb|right|Americans celebrate [[VJ Day]] and the end of [[World War II]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') | [[File:VJ Day.jpg|thumb|right|Americans celebrate [[VJ Day]] and the end of [[World War II]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'')]] | ||
The destruction of the two cities ultimately convinced Japan's rulers of the need to surrender. The Japanese Emperor was forced to give the order to do so. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'') Japan surrendered to the Americans ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Log 384 (short story)|Log 384]]'') on [[2 September]] 1945, ending the Pacific War ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') and thus fully bringing World War II to its formal conclusion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Base of Operations (short story)|Base of Operations]]'') The date became celebrated as [[VJ Day]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') or Victory in the Pacific Day. The Allies celebrated the occasion with what the Eleventh Doctor described as "one hell of a victory [[party]]." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') | The destruction of the two cities ultimately convinced Japan's rulers of the need to surrender. The Japanese Emperor was forced to give the order to do so. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'') Japan surrendered to the Americans ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Log 384 (short story)|Log 384]]'') on [[2 September]] 1945, ending the Pacific War ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') and thus fully bringing World War II to its formal conclusion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Base of Operations (short story)|Base of Operations]]'') The date became celebrated as [[VJ Day]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'') or Victory in the Pacific Day. The Allies celebrated the occasion with what the Eleventh Doctor described as "one hell of a victory [[party]]." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'') | ||
