Last Living Connection to Enola Gay

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Episode #850 of Hometown Heroes, airing August 10-15, 2024, comes in between some significant anniversary observations: the deploying of nuclear weapons that targeted Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the subsequent surrender of Imperial Japan that brought World War II to a close.

You’ll hear what President Harry Truman said when he addressed the nation about the first atomic bomb, hear from a Marine who unloaded components of that first bomb, “Little Boy,” on the island of Tinian, and also from the last living member of the 393rd Bomb Squadron, the unit that launched the B-29 Enola Gay on its world-altering mission on August 6th, 1945.