The three of us pretty much flew together. Tibbets at that time was our commanding officer and pilot and MajorTom Ferebee was our bombardier. We got on the same crew together and flew the first mission out of England in 1942 on B-17s. The commanding officer was Colonel Paul W.
Out of navigation school, I was sent to the 340th Bomb Squadron and the 97th Bombardment Group. TIME's Hiroshima reporting from the aftermath of the bombing and over the past 60 years Online resources relating to the dropping of the atomic bomb leaders never questioned the idea of dropping the Bombįrom � Web Guide: Hiroshima, 60 Years Later Why that legacy is now in peril�and what we should do about it The atom bombs dropped over Japan ended a terrible war and persuaded the world never to use nuclear weapons again. I signed up in 1940, but they didn�t take me until the late summer of 1941.Įyewitnesses of Hiroshima � Living Under the Cloud I decided that rather than being in the mud and on the ground I would join the Air Force. After the first summer of college, I saw the ads to be an aviation cadet, to fly and all that and thought 'Gee, I'm going to be in the war anyhow.' The war hadn't been declared yet, but you didn't have to be too smart to see that we were going to be in it.
