The Wounds of Hiroshima

The Wounds of Hiroshima

Claude Eatherly, as too few Americans yet know, is the pilot who led the bombing mission which dropped the first atom bomb on mankind over Hiroshima, and the second three days later over Nagasaki. Through acts of repentance, from trying to destroy the “hero” image by committing such antisocial aggressions as forgery and holdup (in which he took nothing!) to agonized appeals to his fellow-men, he has worked to contaminate our collective conscience with the dread of nuclear war.

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