[ARC5] Enola Crewman Passes - off topic.

[J. Forster]

A few years ago I was in a physical therapy class with an ex-USN guy who
was trained on the APS-4 in early 1945. He was on a ship, bound toward
Japan when the bomb was dropped.

Linc certainly was not conflicted about its use in any way. He said flat
out that it likely saved his life.

FWIW,

-John

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> This is off-topic, but there seems a good deal of comment on the
> value or otherwise of "The Bomb".
>
> I feel that only those closely associated with the war are entitled
> an opinion on this subject. After all, we can't know how it was at
> that time. I asked my father in law how he felt about dropping The
> Bomb.
>
> He was a POW in Japan in 1945. He (and his fellow prisoners) had
> dug a long hole into the side of a mountain. It was quietly
> rumoured this would be their resting place, when USA attacked Japan
> proper.  He arrived in Japan in 1943, after surviving a trip by sea
> that had an overall loss rate of 50%.
>
> He said: "The Bomb saved my life", and he meant it.
>
> Two weeks after the war he got on a train with a mate and went to
> see Hiroshima. He told me that no-one believed they could make a
> single bomb big enough to destroy a city. They wanted to see the
> city.
>
> He died two years ago - cancer.
>
> In the end the bomb that saved him got him. War extracts a terrible
> price, even on the victors.
>
> I suspect that no crew-member of the Enola Gay would not claim to
> be a hero, and I would not put words in their mouth, but I know
> this: The young men who fought in WWII were gutsy fellows.  I don't
> imagine we can every understand what they knew.
>
> "They shall not grow old as we grow old"
> "Lest we forget"
>
> Now, to legitimise this posting, can anyone say what radio
> equipment was used on the Enola Gay?
>
> Les Smith,
> formerly vk2bcu
>
>
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