TIL of Marcus McDilda - a P-51 Mustang pilot shot down over Japan two days after the first atomic bombing. Tortured by the Japanese to learn U.S. atomic bomb capabilities, he told his captors the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto within "the next few days."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_McDilda

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