Cuba, 55, 77–78
the 509th in, 81, 84–85
Cyanide capsules, 241
Death ray, 43, 120
Dehart, “Pappy,” 113
Doll, Ed, 226, 229, 232, 236
Doolittle, James, 97
Dougherty, Dora, 54, 96
Downey, William, 69–70, 198, 237–38
Dulles, Allen, 64, 99, 100, 121, 122, 168–69, 190–91
Dumbos, 229
Duzenbury, Wyatt, 33, 46, 48–49, 147, 183, 184, 225, 226, 242, 281
during atomic mission, 247, 258
preflight check of Enola Gay, 238–39
Early, Steve, 108
Eatherly, Claude, 56–57, 67, 77–78, 111, 113–14, 204
attempt to bomb Imperial palace, 186–87, 188
description of, 24, 26–27
mental health of, 57, 197
since 1945, 280–81
on Tinian, 183
as weather scout, 217, 252, 253
Eatherly, Joe, 280
866th Bombardment Squadron, 199–202
Einstein, Albert, 7, 65–66
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 14
Ellison, Buford, 201
Enola Gay, 232, 284
controversy over name, 233
crew of, 238, 281
departure of, from Tinian, 239–244
flight of, 244–51, 254–58, 262, 263–65
follow up attack of, 275
return of, to Tinian, 269
Ent, Uzal G., 11–12, 13, 14
Falls, Lawrence, 200
Farrell, Thomas, 175, 207–8, 218, 233, 241, 266, 269
Ferebee, Thomas, 25, 28, 47–48, 67–68, 102–3, 172, 219–20
description of, 31–32
during atomic mission, 244, 255, 256, 257, 258
since 1945, 281
skill of, 185
on Tinian, 179–80, 224–25, 236
Fermi, Enrico, 8, 40, 134
First Ordnance Squadron, 87, 94–96, 103, 112, 167, 232, 234
509th Composite Group, 67
attempts to break up, 179–80, 184
celebration for, following mission, 267–68
in Cuba, 78, 84–85
hostility toward, 166, 198
practice missions over Japan, 186–87, 204–5, 208
reunions of, 281
security of, 165–66
on Tinian, 154–57, 165–66, 180–81, 196–97
in Wendover, 113–14
Flanagin, Rudolph, 200
Formosa, 168
Franck Report, 136
Fuchida, Mitsuo, 18, 118, 251, 268–69, 282
Fujii, Shoji, 115
Full House, 227, 253
Furman, Robert, 169–70, 175–77
Fuzing system, tests of, 103–5, 112–13, 230–31
Gackenbach, Russell, 30, 158, 183
Genda, Minoru, 17–18, 143, 283
Germany, surrender of, 128
Giles, Barney, 13
Ginga bomber, 120
Göring, Hermann Wilhelm, 273
Great Artiste, 204–5, 218, 226, 227, 230, 239, 244, 247, 249, 256, 257, 266, 276
“Great God K, The,” 8
Greenglass, David, 40–41
Grennan, Eugene, 29–30, 183, 253
Gromyko, Andrei, 123
Groves, Leslie, 55, 66, 80–81, 86, 90–93, 123, 124–25, 145–46, 218
and “arming” of bomb, 227, 233–34
and code names, 171, 198–99
description of, 15–16, 30–31
and LeMay, 184
and “publicity” of Enola Gay’s departure, 239
and security, 31, 181
and target selection, 70–72, 92, 134, 136–38, 144, 215
at test-firing of plutonium bomb, 172–74, 175
and time schedules, 72, 115, 213
Guam, 18, 74, 75, 78–79, 81, 126, 209
“Guillotine, The,” 38
Handy, Thomas T., 206–7, 215
Haruna, 199, 200
Hashimoto, Mochitsura, 33–35, 72–75, 126–27, 208–213, 282
Hata, Shunroku, 142–43, 162, 188–89, 193, 199, 201, 224, 234–35, 251, 257, 282
headquarters of, 163–64, 274
Hirohito, Emperor, 61, 161, 169, 190, 194–95, 277, 278
Hiroshima, 22, 102, 115–16, 125–26, 186
air raids on, 100–101, 236, 252
communications conference in, 235, 251–52, 254
conditions in, prior to atomic attack, 58–62, 87–88, 189, 223–24, 253–54
description of, 18–21
destruction in, following attack, 261–63, 269
military headquarters in, 142, 143, 163–65
military police in, 130
relief for, 274
as target selection, 132, 136, 137, 143–45, 214–15, 219–20, 225, 227, 253
today, 283
Hiroshima Castle, 20, 62, 130, 214, 254, 261–62
Hiroshima Pilot, The (Huie), 281
Hirota, Koki, 162
Hiroto, Kanai, 202, 203
Honshu, 140
Hopkins, James, 204–5
House Committee on Appropriations, 90
Huie, William Bradford, 280
I.58, 33–35, 72–75, 127, 209–213
Imai, Kizo, 151–55, 187–88, 244, 282–83
Imoto, Kumao, 251, 274
Imperial Japanese Army, 21
Imperial Japanese Navy, 33
Imperial palace, 186, 194–95
Incendiary bomb raids, 97–98
Indianapolis, 101, 127, 170, 171, 282
attack of, 210–13
choice of, to transport bomb components, 117
description of, 175–77
Interim Committee, 125, 134–36
Iwo Jima, 88, 101, 120, 256
as “pit stop” for atomic mission, 216–17
rendezvous at, 249
Jabbit III, 227, 253
Jacobsson, Per, 64, 168–69, 190–91
Japan
army intelligence of, 44–45, 63–64, 99, 163–64
atomic research in, 42–43
bombing raids in, 235
defense plans of, 188
internal political situation in, 161–62
invasion plans for, 140–41, 156, 179
military police of, 129–30
and peace negotiations, 64, 99–100, 122, 162–63, 168–69, 190–91
and Potsdam Proclamation, 195–96
surrender of, 277–78
war criminals of, 282
Japan Radio, 126, 129
Jeppson, Morris R., 167, 225, 229, 233, 236, 281
on atomic mission, 246, 249, 250, 255, 258
description of, 103–4
Johnston, Robert, 200, 202, 203
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 140, 179
Kaitens, 72–75, 208–9, 211–12
Kamikazes, 51–52, 65, 99, 101, 117–18, 143, 251, 281–82
Katayama, Colonel, 251, 274
Keitel, Wilhelm, 41, 273
Kempei Tai, 129–30, 165, 202–4, 214, 253, 274–75
Kennedy, John F., 283
“K Factor, The,” 8
Kido, Marquis Koichi, 161–62
King, Admiral E. J., 80–81, 87, 179
King, John, 27, 28, 53, 54
Kirkpatrick, Camillous, 200
Kirkpatrick, E. E., 155, 181
Kobe, 98
Koiso, Kumaki, 121
Kokura, 132, 136, 145, 186, 225, 227, 262, 275–76
Korea, 168
Kure Harbor, 127, 200
Kyoto, 71–72, 132, 136–38, 186, 191, 219
Kyushu, 122, 140, 141, 142–43, 153, 163, 276, 282
Lansdale, John, 11–13, 26, 36, 37
Laurence, Bill, 236, 240
Lawrence, Ernest O., 40, 134
Leahy, William D., 89, 173, 179
LeMay, Curtis, 78–80, 97–99, 144–45, 156–57, 180, 206, 207, 283
and final plans for attack, 219–20, 225, 231
Lewis, Robert, 32–33, 45–49, 52, 111, 138–40, 147–48, 242–44, 281
background of, 46–47
crew of, 67, 139
log kept by, during atomic mission, 240, 242, 245, 247, 249, 256, 264–65, 281
practice missions of, 45–46, 103–4, 113, 204–5
and Sweeney, 112
and Tibbets, 54, 76–77, 182, 208, 218, 226, 233, 244–45
on Tinian, 158–61, 236
Leyte, 209, 210
Lindbergh, Charles, 46
Lonesome Lady, 200–201, 202, 204