D: Ballad, “Nobody Knows,” Short Narrative History of the 509th Group (unpublished); 509th Pictorial Album.
6
AI: Arisue.
B: No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Fall of Japan (Craig).
7
AI: Tibbets, Ferebee.
B: No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); The Great Decision (Amrine); Now It Can Be Told (Groves); Abandon Ship! (Newcomb).
D: Memo, Parson to Tibbets, July 15, 1945 (unpublished); memo, Parsons and Oppenheimer to Groves, June 29, 1945 (unpublished); memo, Parsons to Tibbets, June 30, 1945 (unpublished).
T: Ashworth.
8
AI: Tibbets.
B: Dawn Over Zero (Laurence); The Glory and the Dream (Manchester); All in Our Time (Wilson); Now It Can Be Told (Groves).
D: Report on Test II at Trinity, 16 July 1945, Warren to Groves (unpublished); memo, Groves to Chief of Staff, July 30, 1945 (unpublished).
M; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: vol. 31, April 1975, “Prelude to Trinity,” vol. 31, May 1975, “A Foul and Awesome Display” (both by Bainbridge); vol. 26, June 1970, “Some Recollections of July 16, 1945” (Groves).
N: New York Times, articles in issues between September 9 and October 9, 1945, by William Laurence.
T: “The Day the Sun Blew Up” (BBC-TV); “The Building of the Bomb” (BBC-TV): Groves.
9
B: Abandon Ship! (Newcomb); History of the United States Naval Operations in World War Two (Morison); Sunk (Hashimoto); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey).
T: Ashworth.
10
AI: Elsey.
B: Between War and Peace (Feis); Japan Subdued (Feis); Year of Decisions (Truman); Triumph and Tragedy (Churchill); On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson/Bundy); Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow).
D: Telegrams, Harrison to Stimson and Stimson to Harrison, July 16, 1945; Log of the President’s Trip (unpublished).
N: New York Times, July 18, 1945; Daily Mirror, London, August 2, 1945.
PP: Diaries, Stimson, Truman.
11
AI: Tibbets, Ferebee, Lewis, Caron, Beser, Duzenbury, Nelson, van Kirk, Perry, LeMay, Spitzer, Grennan, Gackenbach, Jernigan, Sweeney.
D: Memos, Kirkpatrick to Groves, June 10 and July 21, 1945 (unpublished).
PP: Spitzer’s diary.
12
AI: Tibbets, LeMay, Ferebee, van Kirk, Lewis, Caron, Beser, Duzenbury.
B: The Hiroshima Pilot (Huie); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Seven Hours to Zero (Marx).
D: History of the 509th (unpublished); 509th Pictorial Album; report of Combined Intelligence Committee, July 1945.
13
AI: Imai, Grennan.
B: The Hiroshima Pilot (Huie); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Seven Hours to Zero (Marx).
14
AI: Imoto, Endo, Oya, Maruyama, Yanagita, Kaizuka, Yokoyama.
D: USSBS Interrogations of Hata (unpublished); reports from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, May 1946 through November 1948, in relation to Hata.
15
B: On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson); Japan Subdued (Feis); Between War and Peace (Feis); Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow); Year of Decisions (Truman); Triumph and Tragedy (Churchill).
D: Memo, Groves to Stimson, July 18, 1945; Log of the President’s Trip (unpublished).
16
AI: Beser.
17
AI: Arisue, Oya.
B: Hirohito (Mosley); The New World (Hewlett/Anderson); Ten Years in Japan (Grew); Imperial Tragedy (Coffey); The Fall of Japan (Craig); Japan Subdued (Feis); Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow); On Active Service in Peace and War (Stimson/Bundy).
N: Nippon Times, July 29, 30, and August 1, 1945; Asahi Shimbun, July 28, 1945.
18
AI: Tibbets, Beser, Lewis, Jernigan, Grennan, King, van Kirk, Downey, Duzenbury, Caron, Nelson, Jeppson, Stiborik, Biel, Cheshire, Imai.
B: No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey).
D: History of 509th Group (unpublished); 509th Pictorial Album.
19
AI: Yanagita, Shima, Maruyama, Matsuoka, Kosakai, Hiroto, Yokoyama, Imoto, Endo.
B: The Hiroshima Memoirs; Hirohito (Mosley); The Fall of Japan (Craig).
D: Crew’s Records (unpublished); two Missing Air Crew reports, 866th Bombardment Squadron (H), 494th Bombardment Group (H), July 30, 1945 (unpublished); Reports, CINCAFPAC, September 23, October 9, 18, 1945 (unpublished); mission orders, VII Bomber Command, 494th Bomb Group, Field Order 45–92, July 27, 1945 (unpublished); mission report, 494th Bomb Group (unpublished).
PP: Yokoyama (notes), Hiroto, Matsuoka.
20
AI: Lewis.
D: History of the 509th Group (unpublished).
21
AI: Tibbets, Lewis, LeMay, Sweeney.
B: Now It Can Be Told (Groves); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); The Hiroshima Pilot (Huie).
D: Memo, Oppenheimer to Parsons, July 23, 1945 (unpublished); memo, Groves to Marshall, July 18, 1945 (unpublished).
22
AI: Hashimoto, Beser.
B: Sunk (Hashimoto); Abandon Ship! (Newcomb); Now It Can Be Told (Groves).
D: Memo, Groves to Chief of Staff, July 30, 1945 (unpublished).
23
AI: Matsuoka, Oya, Kosakai, Yanagita.
B: The Hiroshima Memoirs.
24
B: Now It Can Be Told (Groves).
D: Cable No. 1005, Spaatz to War Department, July 31, 1945 (unpublished); cable No. 10027, Spaatz to War Department, July 31, 1945 (unpublished); cable, Handy to Spaatz, No. 3542, July 31, 1945 (unpublished); memo, Groves to Chief of Staff, July 30, 1945 (unpublished).