News That Affects You - Youth Magazine Staff - August 1982

Youth Magazine Staff

Good News Beyond the Bomb! - Where There's (Less) Smoke... - Choose Your News - COUNTRY IN FOCUS: Japan - The 'Wall of Shame'; On Aug. 6, 1945, Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. piloted the Enola Gay into position over his assigned target: Hiroshima, Japan. Only Col. Tibbets and two scientists on board knew what the strange- looking bomb the plane was carrying really was. When the target was in sight, Major Thomas Ferebee, bombardier, released the 10,000-pound bomb. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library