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EmlaGay"C(NUrthors Teはof American Dead
A new book, "Enola Gay" by Briti&h writers Gordon Thり咖g and Mi ax Mc^rgan Witts, ft ells of American prisoners of war who wぉre captured two "weeks earlier were»m<mgthe80,000 p鹏ons killWin "the U.S. atoipic <bomWng of Hiiroshim效on Aug. 6,1945.
"For 32 y柳fi5, this information has beもn svippr^^," co--airbJior Thom躲ffaidf ill汰rextent interview in London.
(In1970, when the documents in thケNationalArchives】isted the names of American POWti in Hiroshima柳s declassified, the Army 士邻orted 20 American a】>-
were fully identified and a third pEiTtUdly by surn乖6. The seardh was made at the request of thも United Piess International双ftef Hiroahi Yana^gida, the Japanese offi"cer charge of 'the 23 American prisoners, revealed his war-tdune mission in July. Yanaぉta recalled among the 23 Avas a woman,)
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In the book, named afー the B-29 bomber tlia/t carrieid 6ut the world's (first atomic attack on Aug, 6,1945, Thomas and Witts write that an estimafted 23 A爪eri-cans 、V6re 'being held in招ro-shima 'みtお he time. Tゅ迈uUvoi'3 said10 of <the<m had heen tak幼 mis on枕in Okinawa and the rest 'had been sh欲down over Hiroshima on July 28,1945.
"The fate of the American pゅonゃrs of 、ぉi"is nひt <ier^in," tぉey^^ded in thぉr 327-page 'book. "Two were reported to havもbeen escorted, wounded but a<ble to walk, to TJji旭.One was sもen vm如r a bridge, apparently <Jying, wearing onlyapaii' of red and 、ゅite imd€>rpants. Two were saiid to have b^en batt枕ed to death in Uieoastle grounds by their ca'p-
of Hir03hi腦.
Witts, i"lso intervieweJd with Thomas, said "We cannot say for certein邻hat ha卯ened to ever^r singlepもrson because the official records themselves a'reneither accurate一they're often contradictory 一nor are 'they convprehen. give,"
iBiit the authors named six U.S.
Army Air Force personnelwho theyaaW were killed in the Hiro. shinwi Attack:
Thom助and Witts expressed the 'belief thaitguUt ifeelin^ ,re attached (to the效もt8clc and be-oau,e of他isわ he American dea/thき
"There's no doubt in our minds," s»14 Thomas of咏e招ro-aihim» attack, "thatthei,kttiv錄, the v^iives, mothers, erweethearts of these believed他elr
manfolk were killed t>y enem^ —Qii." One鹏n, Staff Sgrt Julius 'Mol加r of Kalamazoo, Mich" 'rear turret gunner on a bonrf^r named Ta】oa, one of他e two B24s shot down on July幼, 邻asreiported killed in actUmaUd poゅumou8"ly awaix3ed the DiS, tinがislied Flying <)ro3S, .tlwy said..
None of the10 men captured on Qkina柳,presひmably "U.S. Ma-,rines, wもre named. But in the interview, the authorslisted five other men in addition t^Molmir asおVing died in Hiroshim?i on Aug. 6, ,• .---^----
They ide爐ied tJhem as 2nd Lt. James Ryaiv'bombardiもr;iSg"t. Hugh Atkinson, r^dio operator; Sgt. Biifゃrd Ellison, fUgOit engineer; Gpl,Jolm L6n^, nひSe gunner; and 2nd Lt. Durden Loo per , co. pilot. An were from the <jrew of 晚e B24 Lonesome Lady, shot dひym oyer Hiroshima.
The Pentagon in Washiiitjjton, asked about the authors' clskn, said: "Thゃi.e wもrふl^tweeiv10お4 20 American POWs in the Hiw-shinVa arきat the timeカf the boiiiibin^." To •もxtent:你ヌe i^erc cisuaWeさcanriotibe greatly
(The Ui^rrゅortミn1970 from Wa3hing;'toiv f<ientified the three feilted in Hir辨hirn多as S/S^. :Raiph J. Nea】,B-24 turret gun-ner "who ihaさbeenlisted Missing in Action10 days after thもl)cymb" ing and Nonnan Roland Brisset A tWrdman wぉidentぱied only as BIan妙et. Persoimelrecords for Nealand Br is set showed the〗r families hs^ been notified they had been killed by the atom bo油).
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In th« evening, Yひh-Bon oaUed up his j&panMe oPriend w1k> i歸 owfieiM)pej!«jtor ori\iJiy»、 Hotei, and had dinner togetfi"eT*饰6 "l>a^Mhi" — thinly alked raw horse me" dWn,t teste too bad but might ibave ««tonli»h«d my stomach. On the other hand Jbwl)6qued ho ree meat, shdBhkai)ob style, WM輔cl。lis,
I don't remember alll;he thing*» I talked about with Yoh-swi and hi a family加embers but it was int^iresting,幼d ilUunto*ting.
iSubconscioualy, I柳8メvoidingr one area our di8o咖ions— bhe fact that they weve 0hi卿e,必nd how it influenced theirlives, They talk©daboutit without hesitartionjlmt I did not probe as I Tmiドhaveliked to. I tWnlc tfliere is fiometWn(fir,thol邻icialin the Oanidians Nisei cwnreness of his racialidentity. I detected noiw of this in Yひhぅans jPamily.
Yoh-san wrote to mゃrecently in reply to myletter ofthankh. Wri"ng iromleft to right in hiis neaぃJagpanese script, Yoh-幼n expressed他e following thoughts:
"T\here多re ;f^;pゃople in Jaipan that I cfwi curry on serious dis-c^io加with. How8ti^ngieibutiort^matetiSaitl她Ulfind gometme iiyin^ on t^ieo t her side of the wo]^d who ;is on the «ainew«iVi?-tengthfismyseぱ.I/cannotpromiseる he exaot date,ぉut Icもrtainly inteivd to visはyou andlook forward to the opportunity of contlmi-iiig our disfjussiio加.,, : '.
;hope he ,k賴it soon. Because there are many qまはonstiMit I am bufming to朋k. How wa<s^ it during他e邻汰rャDo you feel抑y rtujialdiscrimination? What a bout interracialmarriage ? To what extent can you 'becomeさntegi;さted into Japanese society 7
Otbawゅat an initialS^nsei me, eting. Wiatad汰and Kobayakowa id so entertained an appredもtiV"e au;diemsefitthきCentennial Youth Conference.
His加rtidiDation in theYou他 C<mference certaiinly notlimited to his performance. <)n€ of麵busiest members <m the Y(>uth Coinm!ittee> hel^d theさか minarohi"eHgriりn. Prior; to the CQnfei,erice he initiiated meetings
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of tihe 'umveo^srty of Toronto Sansei students, and hゃlped set up the discoipub nigJhts' at the CulturalCentre to jmblicjize and yovrtji participation for thゃ Conference.
:Feil<yw Cair ad i an i^angei have no ft heard thelast of him. 'Koba-ya]<!aw*3leavesfoi^Japanin October on an adventure thai we look foi"waiHi to heating about.
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