We had a final breakfast and then went down to the plane shortly after midnight. They briefed us that the weather was good, but they were sending weather observation planes up so we would have the best information on targeting Hiroshima. But at 10 pm we had to get up again because we were flying at 2.45am. But I don't know how they expected to tell us were we dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan and then expect us to sleep. The day before the mission we sat through briefings on Tinian island where they told us who was assigned to which plane, and we ran through what we were going to do.Ībout 2pm we were told to get some sleep. Morris "Dick" Jepson - Weapons test officerĭr Harold Agnew - Scientist, on the observation plane Three men involved in the attack on Hiroshima shared with the BBC their memories of a day that has stayed with them for 60 years. But to their mission's critics, the crews that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan were part of a war crime. They were young men hoping to help end World War II.
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