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DATE OF FIRST BLOW GERMAN PLANT RAZED ALLIES OUTPACE RIVALS '(10 a.m.) * NEW YORK, Aug. 9. Brigadier-General Thomas Farrell, aide to Major-General Leslie Groves, who is in charge of atomic bomb development, disclosed that the date for the dropping of the first bomb was set well over a year ago. British and American scientists thought for a while that they were racing against time with the Germans who were known to have begun work on a similar bomb. Allied bombs last March destroyed a laboratory at Oranienburg in which German scientists were working on' the atomic bomb. When they heard about the laboratory, General George Marshall and General H. H. Arnold sent a courier from Washington with oral orders to General Spaatz to destroy the building. , General Farrell added that the Allies, after entering Germany, learned that the Nazis were years behind the British and American scientists.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21787, 9 August 1945, Page 6
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