Young Men and Bombs

By CAROLINA A. MIRANDA, TIM PADGETT, COCO MASTERS

Morris R. Jeppson, 83 Weapon Test Officer on the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima

Theodore "Dutch" J. Van Kirk, 84 Navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima

Frederick L. Ashworth, 93 Weaponeer on the Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9

Charles "Don" Albury, 84 Co-pilot on a B-29 that accompanied the Enola Gay and on the Bockscar

The Japanese Pilot One man, training to pilot a submarine on a suicide mission, remembers Hiroshima