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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ish who wrote (36471)8/29/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (3) of 71178
 
I was curious as to what they thought that flash of light was. They just knew that weapons were being tested over in New Mexico, and didn't have any real idea of what it was except that it had to be very, very big. I don't think it was too many weeks from the time of that test until the bomb was used.

Last year Imus interviewed the pilot of the Nagasaki plane. Bach's Car? Something like that. He also flew photo chase over Hiroshima. The guy had just written a book, in response to that exhibit the Smithsonian had a few years back.

A fascinating old guy. On the first flight they figured they had a 50-50 chance of being caught in the blast. The planes flew out of Tinian, a long flight. The loads were very heavy, and the Nagasaki plane essentially ran out of gas on the return flight.

I read an essay a few years ago, Thank God for the Bomb. Written by some English professor who had been a lieutenant in WWII. He was badly wounded in Europe, and was sitting on Tinian preparing to go ashore in the first wave of Operation Jupiter. The invasion of the Japanese mainland. He was resigned to the idea that he would be dead in very short order. Tinian was the site of the largest military hospital in the world, just finished in order to receive the casualties from that invasion. This old guy, a political liberal, had no use for the critics of the atomic bomb.
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