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We were chosen to be the weather plane, the advanced weather plane in Nagasaki, which was the secondary target. Then, all of a sudden, three days later, we said there was going to be another one. By the time we got back, we missed the beer and hot dog party, and everybody was sleeping. We couldn't leave there to go back to Tinian until the Enola Gay landed there, which is a good three, three-and-a-half-hour trip. The only bad thing about it is after the bomb was dropped, we didn't even know about it. So they had to lower it in the pit and raise the hydraulic life there, but thank goodness they didn't have to avail themselves of our airplane. They had a bomb pit with a hydraulic lift there, because the bomb was too big to load conventionally, walking the plane over the bomb. We were there in case the Enola Gay encountered mechanical difficulty, then we're going to land on Iwo Jima, transfer the bomb to our plane, and take our plane. When we landed there, we were ferried over to a certain section of the island.
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We landed on Iwo Jima, which is about halfway from the island of Tinian to Japan. Our crew was chosen to be the backup plane for the Enola Gay. One day, on August 5th, we said there's going to be a briefing, and this is what we're going to do, we're trained to do. In between of course, the atomic missions. Our target was Koromo, Japan, and we bombed the Toyota Auto Works. The last one, after the missions, strangely enough, that was the largest raid that went out of the Tinian Islands-the Marianas I mean. One of the towns that I recall that we bombed was Ube. Before any of the atomic missions, we flew on a few other missions with large ten-thousand-pound pumpkin bombs. My recollection is we left for overseas to the island of Tinian on June, in 1943. The interviewer is me, Molly Graham, and I am accompanied by. We are at 548 Olive Terrace in Union, New Jersey. The interview is taking place on December 12, 2014. Molly Graham: This is an interview with Jack Widowsky.