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In all, ten of the B-29’s fourteen-man crew are still unaccounted for in any form—from P.O.W. stories, U.S. intelligence reports, or the remains returned by North Korea.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 31, 2018

Henry Stimson, 1947, attempting to justify Hiroshima and Nagasaki: “Additional fire raids of B-29’s would have been more destructive of life and property … this deliberate, premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice.”

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2012

Control of the B-29's guns can be interchanged, passed around from gunner to gunner like a basketball and with split-second speed.

From Time Magazine Archive

What the people waited for was the B-29's baptism in combat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The normal radio broadcast warning was given to the people that it might be advisable to go to shelter if B-29's were actually sighted, but no raid was expected beyond some sort of reconnaissance.

From The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District