It was a crisis in which the forces of evil were clearly defined, or at least I thought so until last fall when I read the first accounts from the Air Force Association of the proposed script for the exhibit of the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian Institution. Six days after Nagasaki the Japanese military surrendered and the Second World War came to an end.įifty years ago millions of my fellow citizens served our country in a time of national crisis - a crisis which engulfed our panel a crisis in which the forces of fascism were poised to extinguish the democracies of the world. I flew the instrument plane on the Hiroshima mission, and 3 days later on Augcommanded the second atomic mission over Nagasaki.
I am the only pilot to have flown on both atomic missions. Sweeney, United States Air Force, retired. Sweeney (1919~2004) and the Japanese version of his memoir “WAR’S END:An Eyewitness Account of America’s Last Atomic Mission”
