Various articles published in the United States, Europe and Japan also said he was the man who picked Hiroshima as the target city, and that furthermore he was part of the atomic mission over Nagasaki, three days after Hiroshima. Putnam and Sons, April 1964 Pocket Cardinal edition, April 1965)įor a time in the 1950s and 1960s, a former Army Air Forces officer was portrayed in some international press reports as being the Hiroshima pilot - the aviator who was in command of the aircraft that released the first atomic bomb used in combat over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. “The Hiroshima Pilot” by William Bradford Huie (G.P. Photo courtesy of the United States Air Force Some of the flight and support crew of the B-29 Superfortress Straight Flush: Top row, from left: 2nd Lt.
