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Eyewitness to Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay
In this special season of World War II On Topic, The National WWII Museum will explore J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the history and ramifications of the atomic bomb.
The anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima was August 6. In this episode, we hear from two extraordinary people who experienced the bombing, albeit from vastly different perspectives. While much has been written and said on the subject, these are firsthand recollections, excerpted from the oral histories given by Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk and Ittsei Nakagawa.
Van Kirk was the navigator on the Enola Gay, the…
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