Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 January 24, 1965) was a British politician and statesman, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He was Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. See also: The Second World War (book series) A specially equipped B29, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the military port of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The heat and blast effaced everything in the vicinity, burned 4. 4 square miles, and killed some 70, 000 people (lingering injuries and radiation sickness brought the death toll past 100, 000 by the end of the year). declared war on Japan and invaded. 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