Gordon Thomas - Enola Gay

conditions in, prior to atomic attack, 58–62, 87–88, 189, 223–24, 253–54

description of, 18–21

destruction in, following attack, 261–63, 269

military headquarters in, 142, 143, 163–65

military police in, 130

relief for, 274

as target selection, 132, 136, 137, 143–45, 214–15, 219–20, 225, 227, 253

today, 283

Hiroshima Castle, 20, 62, 130, 214, 254, 261–62

Hiroshima Pilot, The (Huie), 281

Hirota, Koki, 162

Hiroto, Kanai, 202, 203

Honshu, 140

Hopkins, James, 204–5

House Committee on Appropriations, 90

Huie, William Bradford, 280

I.58 , 33–35, 72–75, 127, 209–213

Imai, Kizo, 151–55, 187–88, 244, 282–83

Imoto, Kumao, 251, 274

Imperial Japanese Army, 21

Imperial Japanese Navy, 33

Imperial palace, 186, 194–95

Incendiary bomb raids, 97–98

Indianapolis , 101, 127, 170, 171, 282

attack of, 210–13

choice of, to transport bomb components, 117

description of, 175–77

Interim Committee, 125, 134–36

Iwo Jima, 88, 101, 120, 256

as “pit stop” for atomic mission, 216–17

rendezvous at, 249

Jabbit III , 227, 253

Jacobsson, Per, 64, 168–69, 190–91

Japan

army intelligence of, 44–45, 63–64, 99, 163–64

atomic research in, 42–43

bombing raids in, 235

defense plans of, 188

internal political situation in, 161–62

invasion plans for, 140–41, 156, 179

military police of, 129–30

and peace negotiations, 64, 99–100, 122, 162–63, 168–69, 190–91

and Potsdam Proclamation, 195–96

surrender of, 277–78

war criminals of, 282

Japan Radio, 126, 129

Jeppson, Morris R., 167, 225, 229, 233, 236, 281

on atomic mission, 246, 249, 250, 255, 258

description of, 103–4

Johnston, Robert, 200, 202, 203

Joint Chiefs of Staff, 140, 179

Kaitens , 72–75, 208–9, 211–12

Kamikazes , 51–52, 65, 99, 101, 117–18, 143, 251, 281–82

Katayama, Colonel, 251, 274

Keitel, Wilhelm, 41, 273

Kempei Tai, 129–30, 165, 202–4, 214, 253, 274–75

Kennedy, John F., 283

“K Factor, The,” 8

Kido, Marquis Koichi, 161–62

King, Admiral E. J., 80–81, 87, 179

King, John, 27, 28, 53, 54

Kirkpatrick, Camillous, 200

Kirkpatrick, E. E., 155, 181

Kobe, 98

Koiso, Kumaki, 121

Kokura, 132, 136, 145, 186, 225, 227, 262, 275–76

Korea, 168

Kure Harbor, 127, 200

Kyoto, 71–72, 132, 136–38, 186, 191, 219

Kyushu, 122, 140, 141, 142–43, 153, 163, 276, 282

Lansdale, John, 11–13, 26, 36, 37

Laurence, Bill, 236, 240

Lawrence, Ernest O., 40, 134

Leahy, William D., 89, 173, 179

LeMay, Curtis, 78–80, 97–99, 144–45, 156–57, 180, 206, 207, 283

and final plans for attack, 219–20, 225, 231

Lewis, Robert, 32–33, 45–49, 52, 111, 138–40, 147–48, 242–44, 281

background of, 46–47

crew of, 67, 139

log kept by, during atomic mission, 240, 242, 245, 247, 249, 256, 264–65, 281

practice missions of, 45–46, 103–4, 113, 204–5

and Sweeney, 112

and Tibbets, 54, 76–77, 182, 208, 218, 226, 233, 244–45

on Tinian, 158–61, 236

Leyte, 209, 210

Lindbergh, Charles, 46

Lonesome Lady , 200–201, 202, 204

Long, John, 201

Looper, Durden, 200

Loran beam, 134, 247

Los Alamos (New Mexico), 7–8, 36–40, 86–87

choice of as atomic laboratory, 37

removal of bomb components from, 169–70

Soviet espionage ring at, 40–41

Lucky charms used by crew of Enola Gay , 241–42

MacArthur, Douglas, 80, 207

McCloy, John J., 140

McKibben, Dorothy, 36

McKnight, Charles, 227, 249, 256

McVay, Charles Butler, III, 176–77, 210, 212, 282

Malik, Jacob, 162

Manchuria, 168

Manhattan Project

background of, 7–8

codes used by, 171

cost of, 8, 90

political controversy over, 89–93

security of, 11, 13, 26–27, 29–31, 36, 37, 52, 56–57, 93–95, 105–7, 237

Target Committee meeting of, 132–34

Mao Tse-tung, 79, 230

Mariana Islands, 17, 18, 63, 74, 87, 153, 216

Marquardt, George, 227, 238, 247, 256

Marshall, George C., 72, 91, 92, 136, 137, 138, 179, 206

Maruyama, Kazumasa, 60–62, 101–2, 118, 189, 199, 223–24, 235, 258, 263

Marvin, Donald, 200

Matsuoka, Masaru, 214, 223

“Meetinghouse,” 97–98

Meiji, Emperor, 195

Mitsubishi works, 20, 223

Molnar, Julius, 200, 202, 203

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 123, 276

Mount Futaba, 17, 21, 57, 141, 202, 262

Nagasaki, 191, 215, 225, 227, 252, 279, 281

atomic attack on, 276

Nagoya, 98

Nara, 251

Nazi war criminals, 273

Neal, Ralph, 201

Nelson, Richard, 139, 147, 158–60, 181, 225, 236, 240, 242, 247, 255, 281

New York Times, The , 174–75, 236, 240, 242

Niigata, 136, 145, 186

Nimitz, Chester, 80, 87, 207

Nolan, James, 169–70, 175–77

No More Pearl Harbors (Fuchida), 282

Nuclear research, 7, 91

in Japan, 42–43

No. 91 , 227, 231, 238, 244, 247, 249, 256, 266

Office of Strategic Services, 64, 163

Okamoto, Seigo, 121, 122, 163, 168

Okayama, 98

Okinawa, 87, 101, 117, 122, 127, 156, 164, 209

Olivi, Fred, 113

“Olympic,” 140

Omaha (Nebraska), Martin bomber plant at, 131, 138–40

1027th Air Matériel Squadron, 56

1395th Military Police Company, 56

Onishi, Takijiro, 51–52

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 8, 37–40, 41, 72, 86, 87, 134–36, 169–70, 173–75, 207

Oppenheimer, Katherine, 41

Osaka, 98, 119

Oya, Kakuzo, 45, 63, 163, 188, 193–94, 235, 251, 257, 262, 282

Palau Islands, 209

Parsons, William “Deak,” 11, 13, 38–39, 81, 96, 106–7, 171, 176, 236, 255

“arming” of bomb in flight, 227, 233–34, 245–46

at briefings before mission, 225, 227–28

death of, 281

at departure of Enola Gay , 239, 241

on Tinian, 197

Pathfinders, 97–98

Patterson, Robert, 90–91

Payette, Hazen, 26, 180–81, 204, 217, 225, 228

Pearl Harbor, 7, 18, 65, 282

Pedersen, Roy, 201, 202

Penney, William, 197, 225, 275

Perry, Charles, 27, 53, 55, 69, 77, 165, 181, 198, 218, 234

celebration plans of, 267–68

P-47 fighter, 50

Philippines, 51, 209, 210

Photography, use of during atomic mission, 231, 265, 269

Piskor, Walter, 200

Plutonium bomb, 72, 86, 135, 157, 171

dropping of, on Nagasaki, 276

test-firing of, 171, 172–75, 228

Potsdam, 190–91

Potsdam Conference, 177–79, 197

Potsdam Proclamation, 194–96, 218, 277

Power, Tom, 97–98

POWs, American, 63, 164–65, 204, 214–15, 223, 253, 254, 262

fate of, 274–75, 282

Practice missions, 48–49, 53, 68–69, 103–5, 111–13

over Japan, 186–87, 204–5

Prince of Wales , 43, 58

Proximity fuze, 103, 112, 256

development of, in Japan, 42–43, 120

Purnell, William, 176

Radar, 134

bombing by, 146, 186

use of, on atomic mission, 232, 236–37, 250, 255, 256

Radio Guam, 126

Ramsey, Norman, 11–12, 13, 16, 36, 86

Rayburn, Sam, 108

Repulse , 43, 58

Rescue operation plans, 229

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 273

RiGu, Prince, 189, 251, 254, 257, 274

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 109, 111

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 7, 8, 15, 65, 66, 89–90, 91, 106, 168

death of, 107–9, 111, 121

and Hiroshima, 22, 100, 102