European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes july 1977 by British authors pos perished at Hiroshima said 10 have Bein altered to death Tel by sub eager London a a new Book by two British writers says american prisoners of some captured less than two weeks were among persons killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in world War ii and that two who survived were reported beaten to for 32 years this information has been claimed Gordon co author of the Enola in an in in the Pentagon told 10 to 20 prisoners were believed in Hiroshima at the Lime but it added it could not be ado lately determined if any were victims of the in the named after the b29 bomber that carried out the worlds first atomic attack Oil Thomas and of author Max Morgan Witts write that an estimated 23 americans were being held in Hiroshima at the the authors said 11 of them had been taken prisoner in Okinawa and the rest had been shot Down Over Hiroshima on july the Fate of the american prisoners of War is not they add in their 327 Page two were reported to have been wounded but Able to to one was seen under a apparently wearing Only a pair of red and while two were said to Russ radio airs folksong concert As proof of rights violations Moscow api soviet radio Listis ners on saturday were treated to an unusual 45 minute program featuring Folk songs by Judy Joan Johnny Cash and other top the we rent selected for their musical or artistic they were presented heavily laced with political commentary As part of Moscow continuing Effort to demonstrate violations of human rights in the United the soviet propaganda Campaign focusing on unemployment and other american social problems is designed to fight Bock against Western criticism of soviet human rights violations during the current Belgrade it you Are you have no no your spirit is broken to what then different people react in different but Many land in the american prisons Are packed up lightly with such this was How the programs narrator launched into introductory remarks before playing Johnny cases san which Cash presented at the the program told listeners that aside from people in economic people who Ore fighting for human rights Aba Are spending time in prison in the United the narrator even went Back to the 1920s to resurrect the Case of Sacco and italian immigrants who went to the electric chair after a controversial murder trial in Many More will there cd to come the narrator dont expect hat youd get a confirmation that All these people Are political he to acknowledge this would amount to acknowledging that human rights Are being infringed in the United he As were things there Are just nol Dealand that following this the pro Gram presented Bob Dylan the Hurri about the  Case brought against former Boxer Rubin 1 Hurricane As a prelude to Judy Collins can you spare a the narrator observed the original song was written in during and now it is heard millions and millions of americans arc registered As Unzem p a Joan bad song Aboul the grim life of an elderly couple was preceded by a commentary on general attitudes toward old people in the United try and get a Job if you Are Over the narrator just Lake a look and see How indifferently they wave away old to be old in ibis society is to be a Shadow a forgotten in he noted thai social Security pensions Are Only about the level of regu Lar working thus meaning a huge drop in living truant from the political beat not to be outdone by Farmer British prime minister Edward West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt up the Baton direct the band at die Germa Canadian dub in Schmidt was in the Canadian City to attend the annual Stampede before flying to for the Start of a visit to the a have to death to the grounds by their Jusna in the port Section of also interviewed with f said we cannot say for certain whal ha5 pwned to every single person because the official records themselves Are neither accurate there often Are they Bui the authors named six army air Force personnel who they said killed in the Hiroshima Thomas and who have de five previous including voyage of the and expressed the belief Hal Gull feelings were attached to the attack and because of inc american deaths were not the United states also dropped an atomic bomb on the japanese ally of Nagasaki do inflicting an estimated casualties and destroying a third of w theres no double in our said Thomas of the Hiroshima that the the sweethearts of those dead believe their menfolk were killed by enemy one Julius a rear Turret gunner on bomber named one of the two b24s shot Down on july was reported killed in action and posthumously awarded the distinguished flying they y none of the 10 men captured on Okina presumably were named by the but in the inter they listed five other men in addition to Molnar As having died in Hiroshima on Saufl g they identified them As 2nd James Bombardier Hugh Atkin radio operator Buford flight Engineer John nose and 2nd Durden co All were from the Crew of the shot Down Over i those killed by the japanese died the next said 6 was such a the asked about the authors said there were Between 10 and 20 american pos in the to Rohlma area at the time of the to the extent there were casualties cannot be adequately the Pentagon added that a message sent to the commander of the Pacific air command said that a sgt not named by the was captured before the atomic attack and died As a result of wounds received during the it said two or three other Crew men on Needles plane also were another message reports that a number of men were missing in action just before the the Pentagon adding that they included All the men mentioned by Witts and Thomas in the we Are unable 10 verify if any of the my As missing in action perished in the the Pentagon the authors said Hiroshima was a heavily armed City that had become although the americans probably did not know u at the time the Linchpin in the defense of the whole of the Eastern half of it was in a said referring to the German ally destroyed by the allies during world War ii in what some now believe was a senseless attack against a non military it was a legitimate military target filled with troops quite determined to fight to the last in Hiroshima at the Lime of the bomb ing were japanese soldiers and w per cent of them the author Thomas and Wilts refused to discuss their own personal feelings about the bombing and whether they believe it Bui they said some japanese they talked to before writing the Book expressed the View that when the soviet with ils millions of entered the War in the Japan knew it had lost and that the two atomic blasts gave them a Way to bet out of