25
AI: Beser, Cheshire, Ferebee, van Kirk, Tibbets, Perry, Sweeney, LeMay, Lewis.
B: No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey); Now It Can Be Told (Groves).
C: Lord.
D: Daily intelligence summaries, Twentieth Air Force, Guam, July 1945 (unpublished); Field Order No. 13, Twentieth Air Force (unpublished); Cables, Groves to Farrell and Farrell to Groves, July 30, 1945 (unpublished).
26
AI: LeMay, Ferebee, Tibbets.
FISSION
1
AI: Matsuoka, Maruyama, Kosakai, Kaizuka, Shima.
B: The Hiroshima Memoirs.
D: USSBS.
2
AI: Tibbets, Lewis, Beser, Jeppson, Jernigan, Caron, Duzenbury, Nelson, Stiborik, Slusky, Gackenbach, Grennan, Ferebee, van Kirk, King, Spitzer, Sweeney, Cheshire, LeMay, Brode, Strudwick, Perry, Downey.
B: We Dropped the A-Bomb (Miller/Spitzer); Now It Can Be Told (Groves).
C: Alvarez.
D: Operations Order No. 35, 509th Group (unpublished); telecom message, LeMay to 509th, August 5, 1945 (unpublished); telegram, Doll to Oppenheimer, August 5, 1945 (unpublished).
PP: Spitzer’s diary.
T: Ashworth.
3
AI: Maruyama, Oya, Imoto, Shima, Matsuoka, Kosakai.
B: The Hiroshima Memoirs.
PP: Oya, Maruyama.
4
AI: Tibbets, Lewis, Jeppson, Duzenbury, Nelson, Stiborik, Caron, Beser, Ferebee, van Kirk, Imai, Downey, Spitzer, Sweeney, Grennan, King, Jernigan.
B: Now It Can Be Told (Groves).
M: “Time Out” (Downey’s prayer); Yank, September 7, 1945.
T: Ashworth.
5
AI: Tibbets, Lewis, Jeppson, Duzenbury, Nelson, Stiborik, Caron, Beser, Ferebee, van Kirk, Sweeney, Spitzer, Gackenbach, Grennan, King, Brode, Imai.
B: We Dropped the A-Bomb (Miller/Spitzer); Seven Hours to Zero (Marx).
C: Alvarez.
D: Mission reports, August 1945 (unpublished); Parsons’s check list (unpublished); navigator’s log prepared by van Kirk; Twentieth Air Force intelligence summary for August 6, 1945 (unpublished); B-29 crew instruction manual.
PP: Spitzer’s diary, Lewis’s log.
T: Ash worth, Groves.
6
AI: Yokoyama.
7
AI: Tibbets, Lewis, Jeppson, Duzenbury, Nelson, Stiborik, Caron, Beser, Ferebee, van Kirk.
D: Mission reports, August 1945 (unpublished); navigator’s log prepared by van Kirk; Twentieth Air Force intelligence summary for August 6, 1945 (unpublished).
PP: Lewis’s log.
8
AI: Tibbets, Lewis, Jeppson, Duzenbury, Nelson, Stiborik, Caron, Beser, Ferebee, van Kirk.
D: Mission reports, August 1945 (unpublished); navigator’s log prepared by van Kirk; Twentieth Air Force intelligence summary for August 6, 1945 (unpublished).
PP: Lewis’s log.
9
AI: Maruyama, Oya, Shima, Yasuzawa, Fuchida, Imoto, Endo, Kosakai, Kaizuka, Yanagita.
B: The Hiroshima Memoirs.
D: USSBS interrogations of Oya, Hata, Fuchida.
PP: Imoto, Oya, Endo (notes made subsequent to events described).
10
AI: Grennan.
B: The Hiroshima Pilot (Huie); No High Ground (Knebel/Bailey).
11
AI: Maruyama, Oya, Imoto, Endo, Yanagita, Hiroto, Matsuoka, Shima, Kosakai, Yokoyama, Yasuzawa, Fuchida, Kaizuka.
B: The Hiroshima Memoirs; Imperial Tragedy (Coffey); Hiroshima in Memoriam and Today (Takayama).
M: Booklets: A-Bomb, A City Tells Its Story (compiled by Kosakai); Hiroshima (foreword by Araki).
12
AI: Tibbets, Ferebee, Lewis, van Kirk, Beser, Sweeney, Stiborik, Caron, Jeppson, Nelson, Duzenbury, Yasuzawa, Yokoyama, Kosakai, Shima, Maruyama, Oya, Hiroto, Matsuoka, Matsushige, Hatsuko.
B: The Hiroshima Memoirs; Hiroshima in Memoriam and Today (Takayama).
D: Report, Manhattan Engineering District, The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Final Report, Mission No. 13, HQ, 509th Composite Group, dated August 6, 1945, prepared by Stevenson (unpublished); report to COMGENUSTAF, Guam, on Mission No. 13 (unpublished); USSBS.
M: Booklets: A-Bomb, A City Tells Its Story (compiled by Kosakai); Hiroshima (foreword by Araki).
PP: Oya, Endo, Imoto, Perry, Matsuoka, Hiroto, Maruyama.
T: “Hot to Handle” (BBC-TV): Groves, Ashworth.
SHOCK WAVE
1
AI: Tibbets, Caron, Lewis, Duzenbury, Nelson, Stiborik, Jeppson, van Kirk, Ferebee, Beser, Yokoyama, Maruyama, Oya, Nizuma, Suzuki, Hatsuko, Endo, Imoto, Miura, Matsushige.
B: Hiroshima 1945 (Ichiro Osako); The Hiroshima Memoirs.
D: Report, Manhattan Engineering District, The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Final Report, Mission No. 13, HQ, 509th Composite Group, dated August 6, 1945, prepared by Stevenson (unpublished); report to COMGENUSTAF, Guam, on Mission No. 13 (unpublished); USSBS.
2
AI: Tibbets, Caron, Lewis, Duzenbury, Nelson, Stiborik, Jeppson, van Kirk, Ferebee, Beser.
3
AI: Yasuzawa.
4
AI: Tibbets, Nelson.
5
AI: Yasuzawa.
6
AI: Perry.
7
AI: Fuchida.
B: Imperial Tragedy (Coffey).
8
AI: Tibbets, Lewis, Nelson, Duzenbury, Beser, Ferebee, Jeppson, Stiborik, Caron.
AFTERMATH
1
AI: Miura, Endo, Imoto, Oya, Tibbets, Sweeney, Yanagita, Hatsuko, Arisue, Asada, Nizuma, Suzuki, Matsushige.
B: The Fall of Japan (Craig); Japan Subdued (Feis); Hirohito (Mosley); Year of Decisions (Truman); Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Butow); Hiroshima, 1945 (Ichiro Osako); The Hiroshima Memoirs.