Gordon Thomas - Enola Gay

D: Memo, Chief of Staff, of Olympic invasion plan for Japan (June 1945), and staff study, Coronet invasion plan of same month (both unpublished); Recommended Bombing Program Study, May 1945 (unpublished); “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,” extracted from Command Decisions.

PP: Lewis (documents and letters); Caron (notes).

T: Eric Sevareid in conversation with John J. McCloy (“CBS News Special,” July 20, 1975).

AI: Yokoyama, Imoto, Oya, Endo, Kosakai, Genda, Miura.

B: The Hiroshima Memoirs.

D: Reports from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, May 1946 through November 1948 in relation to Hata; USSBS.

AI: Tibbets, LeMay, Lewis, Caron, Nelson, Duzenbury, Stiborik.

B: Now It Can Be Told (Groves).

D: Preliminary report on operational procedures by D. M. Dennison, May 5, 1945 (unpublished); notes on initial meeting of Target Committee, April 27, 1945 (unpublished); Twentieth Air Force target reports and summaries (unpublished); USAAF target photographs (unpublished).

PP: Lewis (letters); Caron (notes).

AI: Imai, Saito.

B: The U.S. Marines and Amphibious Warfare (Isley); History of the United States Naval Operations in World War Two (Morison); The Two-Ocean War (Morison).

M: Saturday Evening Post , December 23, 1944.

AI: Tibbetts, LeMay.

D: Memos, June 10 and July 21, Kirkpatrick to Groves (both unpublished); CINCPAC analysis of air operations, July 1944 (unpublished); VII AAF Intelligence Summary, No. 43 (unpublished); USSBS interrogations of Fuchida; Report on N.A.B. Tinian (unpublished).

AI: Lewis, Stiborik, Caron, Nelson, Duzenbury, Beser, Gackenbach.

D: Map of Tinian, Sixth Naval Construction Brigade (unpublished); Short Narrative History of the 509th Group (unpublished); 509th Pictorial Album.

PP: Lewis (letters); Caron and Nelson (notes).

AI: Arisue, Oya.

B: Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow); The Fall of Japan (Craig); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Imperial Tragedy (Coffey); Hirohito (Mosley).

AI: Perry, Beser, Lewis, Jeppson, van Kirk, Duzenbury, Nelson.

D: Ballad, “Nobody Knows,” Short Narrative History of the 509th Group (unpublished); 509th Pictorial Album.

AI: Arisue.

B: No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Fall of Japan (Craig).

AI: Tibbets, Ferebee.

B: No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); The Great Decision (Amrine); Now It Can Be Told (Groves); Abandon Ship! (Newcomb).

D: Memo, Parson to Tibbets, July 15, 1945 (unpublished); memo, Parsons and Oppenheimer to Groves, June 29, 1945 (unpublished); memo, Parsons to Tibbets, June 30, 1945 (unpublished).

T: Ashworth.

AI: Tibbets.

B: Dawn Over Zero (Laurence); The Glory and the Dream (Manchester); All in Our Time (Wilson); Now It Can Be Told (Groves).

D: Report on Test II at Trinity, 16 July 1945, Warren to Groves (unpublished); memo, Groves to Chief of Staff, July 30, 1945 (unpublished).

M; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: vol. 31, April 1975, “Prelude to Trinity,” vol. 31, May 1975, “A Foul and Awesome Display” (both by Bainbridge); vol. 26, June 1970, “Some Recollections of July 16, 1945” (Groves).

N: New York Times , articles in issues between September 9 and October 9, 1945, by William Laurence.

T: “The Day the Sun Blew Up” (BBC-TV); “The Building of the Bomb” (BBC-TV): Groves.

B: Abandon Ship! (Newcomb); History of the United States Naval Operations in World War Two (Morison); Sunk (Hashimoto); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey).

T: Ashworth.

AI: Elsey.

B: Between War and Peace (Feis); Japan Subdued (Feis); Year of Decisions (Truman); Triumph and Tragedy (Churchill); On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson/Bundy); Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow).

D: Telegrams, Harrison to Stimson and Stimson to Harrison, July 16, 1945; Log of the President’s Trip (unpublished).

N: New York Times , July 18, 1945; Daily Mirror , London, August 2, 1945.

PP: Diaries, Stimson, Truman.

AI: Tibbets, Ferebee, Lewis, Caron, Beser, Duzenbury, Nelson, van Kirk, Perry, LeMay, Spitzer, Grennan, Gackenbach, Jernigan, Sweeney.

D: Memos, Kirkpatrick to Groves, June 10 and July 21, 1945 (unpublished).

PP: Spitzer’s diary.

AI: Tibbets, LeMay, Ferebee, van Kirk, Lewis, Caron, Beser, Duzenbury.

B: The Hiroshima Pilot (Huie); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Seven Hours to Zero (Marx).

D: History of the 509th (unpublished); 509th Pictorial Album; report of Combined Intelligence Committee, July 1945.

AI: Imai, Grennan.

B: The Hiroshima Pilot (Huie); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Seven Hours to Zero (Marx).

AI: Imoto, Endo, Oya, Maruyama, Yanagita, Kaizuka, Yokoyama.

D: USSBS Interrogations of Hata (unpublished); reports from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, May 1946 through November 1948, in relation to Hata.

B: On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson); Japan Subdued (Feis); Between War and Peace (Feis); Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow); Year of Decisions (Truman); Triumph and Tragedy (Churchill).

D: Memo, Groves to Stimson, July 18, 1945; Log of the President’s Trip (unpublished).

AI: Beser.

AI: Arisue, Oya.

B: Hirohito (Mosley); The New World (Hewlett/Anderson); Ten Years in Japan (Grew); Imperial Tragedy (Coffey); The Fall of Japan (Craig); Japan Subdued (Feis); Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow); On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson/Bundy).

N: Nippon Times , July 29, 30, and August 1, 1945; Asahi Shimbun , July 28, 1945.

AI: Tibbets, Beser, Lewis, Jernigan, Grennan, King, van Kirk, Downey, Duzenbury, Caron, Nelson, Jeppson, Stiborik, Biel, Cheshire, Imai.

B: No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey).

D: History of 509th Group (unpublished); 509th Pictorial Album.

AI: Yanagita, Shima, Maruyama, Matsuoka, Kosakai, Hiroto, Yokoyama, Imoto, Endo.

B: The Hiroshima Memoirs; Hirohito (Mosley); The Fall of Japan (Craig).

D: Crew’s Records (unpublished); two Missing Air Crew reports, 866th Bombardment Squadron (H), 494th Bombardment Group (H), July 30, 1945 (unpublished); Reports, CINCAFPAC, September 23, October 9, 18, 1945 (unpublished); mission orders, VII Bomber Command, 494th Bomb Group, Field Order 45–92, July 27, 1945 (unpublished); mission report, 494th Bomb Group (unpublished).

PP: Yokoyama (notes), Hiroto, Matsuoka.

AI: Lewis.

D: History of the 509th Group (unpublished).

AI: Tibbets, Lewis, LeMay, Sweeney.