When you got inside that Quonset, there was complete quiet. There were six crews that were allowed into that Quonset, along with top brass from Washington and also, if you want to call it that, top brass from the Navy. Even though we knew him personally by name, he would not allow anyone inside that Quonset unless they showed proper identification.
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In order to get into the Quonset, which held the briefing, there was an MP at the door. We all got ready and about quarter to five, we all assembled and moved out toward this Quonset.īut this particular briefing seemed to be a little different from normal. The briefing was just another notification that we would be going on a mission. A runner came along and opened the door to inform the crews that were in this Quonset that there would be a briefing at five o’clock that afternoon. We were sitting in our Quonset hut, just playing cards. To begin with, I would almost say that to start this story, about three o’clock on August 4 th would be the most appropriate time. Up until two days’ previous to the dropping at Hiroshima, we ourselves truthfully could not say how hot enough that we were. In the course of being associated somewhat with veteran fliers, who resented more or less our title, they had every reason in the world to look down on us, rather than look up, because they did not know what we had. Sometimes it was a little degrading to be known that way, for the simple reason that when we got overseas, we never did do anything until the event took place. It was somewhat known as the hottest outfit in the Air Force.
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Their job was to carry the atomic bomb to Japan and drop it over the Japanese Empire. I was assigned to a heavy bombardment group in the Marianas, whose title was the 509 th Composite Group. The purpose in making this tape is because of an event that took a part of my life, and also of the lives of a group of men of which I was associated in 1945, during World War II. Raymond Gallagher: My name is Ray Gallagher.