Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Replied TWA Pilot David Wollan: "Roger. Acknowledged...
Again the TWA pilot, unable himself to see or be seen in the bad weather, acknowledged the call...
Whatever tragedy the sight of Little Boy and Fat Man recalled, it was less personal than the recurrent horror that still afflicts former Army Air Corps Major Claude Eatherly, pilot of the reconnaissance plane that fingered Hiroshima for A-bomb attack. It was Eatherly. looking down from his 6-29, who found Hiroshima free of cloud cover and selected it as a target. Guilt feelings for his part in that historic flight left Eatherly suffering from "neurosis with psychotic manifestations," and he was discharged from the service. He has not yet recovered...
...sent to a VA hospital in Waco for treatment. When he got out, he tried robbing post offices and breaking into a drive-in grocery. Always, his war record got him off and he was sent back to the hospital for further treatment. But this fall the ex-pilot walked out of the Waco hospital once more, and he has not been heard from since. Last week the search for him extended throughout the Southwest. As for Claude Eatherly, he probably does not care whether he stays lost or is found. He has not cared about much of anything since...
...documentary, first of a prospective series of six to be produced by TIME INC. and ABC-TV, is the work of Producer Robert Drew, 36. a former jet pilot and LIFE correspondent. His technique of candid-camera closeups and of eliminating an on-screen commentator is not new, but he uses it more deliberately and effectively than any TV show has before. Drew employs two-man crews (one man handles camera, one sound, and both also act as reporters and editors) instead of the usual unwieldy task force. Says Drew: "We would not move in with our lights and cameras...