Operation Firestorm: Another Rolf Reiter Adventure - Softcover

Walters, Bill

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ISBN 10: 1728302676 ISBN 13: 9781728302676

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2019

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General Douglas MacArthur, during the Korean War, ordered two small atomic bombs to be hidden in a small island near South Korea "just in case." Things get out of hand. They didn't and were never activated. Now that the war has ended, the US military is unable to find the two bombs. They are gone! Two Japanese businessmen form an alliance to eventually blackmail the USA with only the threat of detonation. One man is seeking vengeance for his parents dying in a Japanese internment camp; the other's parents perished at Hiroshima. Rolf Reiter, who saved the day during Chameleon Bravo, is called out of retirement to find the bombs. The Russians become involved because the two evil businessmen are considering threatening Russia as well after the Americans. One businessman isn't aware that the other is actually going to detonate one bomb in a large American city even if blackmail money is paid. He is in a hurry, and Rolf Reiter is plagued by traitors from the highest level in the American military and intelligence networks. The character and the plot twist and turn as the bombs are relocated and armed to annihilate a metropolitan destination.

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Bill Walters is a veteran of the US Army Security Agency, holding a top secret security clearance and years of law enforcement investigative experience. He was part of a social unit that travelled through Bavaria and documented areas of interest from WWII. His military travel took him to Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam, Germany, and other European countries. Bill once said, "In Germany, in the '60s, one could still feel the enormity of what had been the Nazi influence." He is a corporate executive and occasionally instructs as an adjunct professor in Battle Creek, Michigan, and resides in Jackson, Michigan.

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Operation Firestorm

Another Rolf Reiter Adventure

By Bill Walters

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2019 Bill Walters
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ISBN: 978-1-72830-267-6

CHAPTER 1

AUGUST 6TH, 1945

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

The blinding white intense fireball was the direct result of x-ray heated air, emitting a shock/pressure wave in all directions possessing a velocity faster than the speed of sound. The massive nuclear explosion and white light, accompanied by heat from the huge fireball, towered well over 1200 feet into the sky. The temperature of the fireball hovered over 7200 degrees F. At ground zero anything flammable burst into flames. Glass and sand melted. Humans either were instantaneously vaporized or turned into carbon. The accompanying gamma and neutron radiation from the fireball killed tens of thousands instantly, and felled thousands more in the days and weeks to come.

The infamous American Air Force Bomber, The Enola Gay, a B-29 travelled 11.5 miles away from ground zero before it felt the shock waves from the violent atomic blast. The bombing run had been flawless, with a 0815 hours release at 31,060 feet. "Little Boy" was a gun type fission weapon containing 130 pounds of Uranium 235. The bomb had fallen for 43 seconds and detonated at 1900 feet above Hiroshima Japan.

A severe crosswind had caused the perfect trajectory at the Aioi Bridge to be skewed by 800 feet. Detonation occurred directly above the Shima Surgical Center. Over 80,000 Japanese; men, women, children, and soldiers

Died instantaneously. The death toll would escalate to over 150,000 in the next few days. 90% of all available nurses and doctors were killed outright greatly diminishing treatment to the terrified masses of critically injured.

The world, for the first time, had experienced an atomic device dropped on human targets. The bomb, was equal to 12,000 tons of TNT. The American public would second guess President Truman for many years on his decision to drop the bomb. He fully realized that the only way the Japanese would surrender was an all out, total invasion of the island of Japan. And that the invasion could cost upwards of one million American soldiers lives. That price was too high to contemplate as Truman would later lament to reporters of posterity.

The Japanese did not surrender immediately after the carnage at Hiroshima, consequently, three days later yet another atomic weapon was dropped upon Nagasaki Japan. That second atomic drop, and the mounting high number of fatalities and injuries broke the back of the once defiant, Imperial Japan. Unconditional surrender was now tendered by a solidly beaten Japan. Their decision was timely because the American war machine was actively preparing to drop several more atomic bombs until they in fact agreed to unconditional surrender. 26 bombs had been readied for future bombing runs by B-29's.

Japan's Prime Minister Hideki Tojo marveled that he was labeled a butcher for his war crimes after learning of what the two atomic bombs did to his beloved Japan. Tojo knew what he had ordered into Manchuria, and Bataan, to him it was war. To unleash such a horrific bomb to him was actually deplorable. He would however, be prosecuted after he recovered from a failed suicide attempt where he had shot himself in the chest. He missed his heart and was treated by American surgeons, only to be hung months later as a court convicted war criminal.

President Harry S. Truman was president of the United States and the day he took over after only 82 days as vice president he was briefed on the Manhattan Project. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died and Truman was sworn in as President. He held his first cabinet meeting, out in the hall as the meeting broke up he was contacted by the leaders of the military involved with the Project and immediately received a detailed briefing on the work at Los Alamos. Theory from Professor Albert Einstein to workings directed by J. Robert Oppenheimer were outlined and the reports both subjective and objective were lain on his lap of responsibility. Truman ultimately made the decision and set in motion the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To many he was a butcher, to countless others he was a brave man whose difficult, decision, most likely saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of American troops. To save lives, he had to utilize the bombs to take lives and not only deliver Uranium 235 but the firm resolve of the American people to end the long costly war in the pacific. Americans were tired of war. The war in Europe against Hitler and his Nazis along with the tedious South Pacific fight with Japan had extracted a toll upon almost every single American citizen. Adolph Hitler and the Nazi's, as well as Tojo and Imperial Japan had underestimated the tenacity of the American people. The United States was attacked on both ends of their country and they were thrust into a fight for their lives, their way of life, their democracy. Once the manufacturing facilities ramped up, coupled with the immense natural resources, there was no stopping the might they could, and would bring to bear. That might was ultimately unleashed on both segments of tyranny.

Some historians wondered if Truman would be able to handle his decision to end the war with the detonation of the atomic bombs. After the public viewed the atrocities at the hands of the Japanese soldiers and the holocaust in Germany he undoubtedly knew he had made the correct decisions. The politicians and the military of the United States of America vowed that the awesome atomic might they had obtained would never be unleashed against good, and would primarily be utilized as a harsh deterrent against any enemies, including and namely the Soviet Union.

Americans dropped the bomb's, saw the carnage from afar and still exhibited difficulty in imagining the devastation. Truman and his staff knew that they had quite the weapons of deterrent and used them when called upon to bluff and up the ante during negotiations in foreign affairs. That ploy only lasted a short time. Once the Russians had their own operational a-bomb, then all of that changed, and shortly the world would see the communists and the Americans square off in a 'cold war.'

CHAPTER 2

Rolf Reiter lay upon a blow up light green thin plastic raft in the middle of the hotels swimming pool. He felt slightly ridiculous, though it was comfortable and the temperature was near 150 degrees he thought. He was not a very large man at 5 foot 7 inches and had a small firm gut, possibly 10 pounds over ideal weight at the most. His boyish dark brown hair though thinning was not a widows peak. The rear monks cap was beginning to appear with more thinning that was an indicator he was rapidly colliding with the elderly age of 42. One of the attributes women noticed, after they noticed he was not an Adonis were his eyes. Those eyes were deep yet bright blue that permeated ones consciousness if allowed. They were not penetrating, more, intense than any other description ever offered.

Reiter was on a vacation, the second vacation in his entire life. He had been on one with his parents when he was 12 years old, and now this one. General Carlton Reeves, his boss, had ordered him to take 3 weeks vacation.

"Rolf, You are not human working all of the time. You will take at least 3 weeks off, more if you wish. It is an order, period. I don't want to hear from you unless the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor again. If they do, just call me, and it better not be from Pearl Harbor."

"All right General, take a breath." Said Reiter.

"Take a breath-General yourself." Said Reeves, good...

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• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1728302676
• ISBN 13: 9781728302676
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
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