He is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has done a good deal of writing about Harry Truman and the major decisions he had to make, including the decision to send Fred Olivi and Ray Gallagher and their colleagues off on those particular missions. Our third guest, Robert Messer, probably wasn’t born by that time but is a close student of the history of that period. He was not on the Enola Gay but on the Great Artiste, which served as an observation plane on that mission. Ray Gallagher was Staff Sergeant both on that flight and on the flight three days earlier, the flight over Hiroshima. That was the plane that actually delivered the bomb to Nagasaki. They are Fred Olivi, who was the co-pilot of Bockscar. Milton Rosenberg: Our guests tonight all know a great deal about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but from different vantage points, two of them from the vantage point of being up in the air and helping to drop the bombs.
Announcer: Here is your host and moderator, Milton Rosenberg.
