"I never heard the words 'atomic bomb'. We were only told what we needed to know, and keep our mouth shut.
We were told that once the explosion occurred, we should not look directly at it, that we should not go through the cloud. As we circled back home, things were very, very quiet. We just looked at each other; we didn't talk. We were all dumbfounded.
After 73 years, I do not regret what we did that day. All war's hell.
The Japanese started the war; it was our turn to finish it." - Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach, navigator of "Necessary Evil" observation plane flying along side the Enola Gay in 1945. #victory #sunburns #stayzero #zerofoxtrot #ww2