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DIED. RICHARD NELSON, 77, the radio operator and youngest crew member on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima; in Riverside, Calif. Nelson, who later said he had no regrets about participating in the historic mission, reported the effects of the attack that killed more than 80,000 in a brief coded message to President Truman: "Results excellent...
...bombers named for girls, we burned/The cities we had learned about in school" is how the poet Randall Jarrell remembered World War II. Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay, the B-29 that incinerated Hiroshima, is more prosaic: "There was no city, there was nothing but the fringes of where the city used...
DIED. THOMAS FEREBEE, 81, Enola Gay bombardier who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima in World War II; in Windermere, Fla. The colonel retired from the Air Force in 1970, after acting as an observer in Vietnam...