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...Neighbors stumbled by, naked, skin hanging off them in shreds. Corpses littered the road. It was Aug. 6, 1945, in Hiroshima. No one in the southern Japanese city had paid much attention to the distant buzz of three American B-29 bombers overhead. But one of them was the Enola Gay, and at 8:15 a.m. it dropped a single bomb that unleashed the "rain of ruin" President Truman had promised if Japan did not surrender...
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...
...finally admits--six years after the fact--that it did launch pyrotechnic military tear-gas rounds into the Branch Davidian compound. However, as government caveats go, the devices did not cause any kind of fire or explosion within the besieged domicile. This is like crew members of the Enola Gay saying that although they did drop a certain atomic device over Hiroshima in 1945, the inevitable explosion was not a result of anything they did. Rather, the Japanese somehow nuked themselves. ROBERT GLENN Edmonds, Wash...