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At 30,000 feet, visual bombing was not a possibility. Japan was closed in with clouds, might have been like out there today. Because this bomb was not to be dropped by this elementary and primitive radar, but only by this Norden bombsight, which is extremely accurate. There were weather planes sent ahead to radio back on both of these missions, radio back the conditions of the weather. Sweeney’s point of view was that if they were short of gas they could stop at Iwo Jima and get re-gassed. They found out one of the gasoline pumps from one of the tanks wasn’t working, so they took off with 600 unavailable gallons of gasoline. What I’m going to tell you about it has all been printed in books and so forth. The Nagasaki mission almost was a tragedy. This was the second highest decoration our country can give, and it’s for exceptional valor and that sort. General Spaatz, he was a four-star general, pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on his flying suit. If you looked at that picture carefully, you could see that he was holding a pipe up there.
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He stuck his pipe up in his sleeve, he stood at attention, see. Saturday Evening Post back then had a big picture of it that’s been reprinted many times. Tibbets got out of the airplane first and he was smoking a pipe. A lot of flag officers or general officers were there. Now that because Leslie Groves wanted the publicity and so forth, when they returned it was something else, a heck of a lot of people there. The night they left, this was a lot of lights, you know, Hollywood kind of lights and cameras and so forth.
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They can’t complain about my petition that God take care of our flyers, or would they rather a parachute-rather have me say, “Strike these bastards down.” I don’t understand these people. They certainly can’t complain about trying to end the war with it and end it in.
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As I reread the prayer over and over through the years, I can’t see a doggone thing they are unhappy about. I have been really criticized for this by left-wing people, anti-bomb people. I prayed this short prayer, which has been printed many times now. This is the night of the mission, he was not in the Quonset hut. They called it a general briefing and it was the custom of the 509 th that the last thing on this was a prayer by the chaplain, which is me. The night of the mission, there was a general briefing in one of the Quonset huts, and when all the data, all the information had been given in this general briefing, there had been special briefings during the day. This kind of hyperbole I never took too seriously anyway. William Downey: Now, as I remarked, one of the security officers told me a little time before, there was going to be a really fantastic new thing, only one of the greatest things that ever happened in the history of the world.