European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 Snail or Mimi by Eugene Moosa associated press Rosary beads in Chika Hirayama visits ground Zero Park in every Day to replenish the water in the Flower vase by the Marble Many people died you the 81yearold widow tells they were All dying they were All crying for Tsukasa remembers in a different he spends most of his weekends at construction Sites and digging for bits and pieces of charred roof twisted bottles and other relics to display in a both Are survivors of history second atomic which exploded Over the port City on and prodded an already stunned Japan to surrender one week ending world War at least people Are estimated to have perished instantly or in the immediate aftermath of the blast caused by fat As the americans dubbed the bulbous plutonium device dropped by a b29 another people died in the next four months from radiation and other about people were killed instantly or died within four months of history first atomic attack on three Days As the second with fewer Nagasaki has never held equal status with Hiroshima As a Symbol of the nuclear but the City is steeped in japanese legend and lore for other Between 1636 and it was the Only port where foreign traders the dutch and chinese were although even then the country xenophobic Feudal rulers  allow the dutch outside their tiny trading enclave on a reclaimed Island in Nagasaki it was also near Nagasaki where pioneering Jesuit missionaries from Portugal first arrived and converted some japanese to beginning a Long and bloody period of religious after the Tokugawa shogunate banned christianity in the the Urakami District became the Center of Kakures or secret Chris who for More than 200 years practice their Faith under cover of other above the City Are the Graves of 27 Christian mar All who died for their from its original experience with foreign Nagasaki evolved into a Center of Western in the Large Mitsubishi shipbuilding works and the naval munitions factories legacies of imported Western technology were among the reasons naga Saki was chosen third on a list of four possible bomb on the Silver b29 Raider named bocks car was heading for a City in Northern Kyushu that was target 2 after when Kokura overcast proved too dense for visual Bock made the decision to change course for the alternate target Nagasaki and spotted the Mitsu Bishi shipyards through the summer now chief of the research material Section of the Cit Yrun Nagasaki International culture paused in his digging to talk with a for 40 i have toiled to find and preserve these people used to Call me but now visitors to our museum appreciate my he showing a piece of charred tile with hard ened bubbles on the he these spots Only form at temperatures exceeding de Grees celsius can you imagine such a temperature out in the open near the Bank of the Shimon Okawa a tributary of the Urakami High school students were unearthing More relics twisted Burnt rosaries and a tree pierced by a Metal Uchida said As Many As people a Day visit the atomic bomb resource Center i spent the last 40 years trying to find out and present what really happened we Are beginning to find but its not the Uchida scene of devastation in Nagasaki a month after the weve got to find a better way9 by Paul Recer associated press Kermit Beahan Hopes he is the last Man Ever to drop an atomic bomb on an but he is not going to apologize for unleash ing the nuclear blast 40 years ago that killed up to japanese at i was a professional Soldier doing my said the 66yearold retired air Force lieutenant who lives in Beahan was the Bombardier who released the fat Man plutonium bomb from the cargo Bay of a b29 named bocks car on the which destroyed was the last major attack of world War ii and came three Days after another atomic the first nuclear weapon Ever used in wiped out Teruaki now in charge of Relief to bomb Vic said on july 17 that Nagasaki want inviting Beahan to an anniversary observation but if he wants to apologize to the we Hope he would come personally and visit the in a subsequent said the two atomic attacks eliminated the need for an inva Sion of the japanese Home that invasion would have Cost Over a million Japa Nese lives and about Allied said i have never even entertained the idea of apologizing for dropping that Beahan had a distinguished War record in the army air forces in Europe and North Africa before he was sent to the in he volunteered for b29 bomber training and was assigned to Utah for project the secret program preparing for atomic attacks on we called the weapon the and nobody was really sure if it was going to work or he we spent about nine months dropping projectiles shaped like the fat Man it was a strange it looked like two bathtubs welded in the summer of 12 b29 Crews were sent to Tinian Island in the including Beavans the great after More the first mis Over was a bomber called Enola Gay was picked to bomb with the great artiste part of the three plane attack Beavans Job was to drop measuring instruments Over Hiroshima by that first Mission went he the weather was we dropped the bomb Only 15 seconds Beavans Crew was selected to drop fat which weighed and was assigned a different bocks the plane encountered problems almost immedi a pump making it impossible to use fuel from an auxiliary a photo plane failed to link up Over the coast of Japan and they spent 40 minutes bocks car broke away and flew toward the primary a huge Arsenal on the Island of the instructions were that we were to make a visual release of the recalled dense Clouds covered the and the plane then turned toward the secondary the Industrial Complex of by the fuel problem had become said we had enough for just one bomb Clouds also obscured but looking through the saw a Small i had 20 to 25 seconds to Complete the bomb he and history second atomic bomb fell toward bocks car turned sharply away and Beahan Scur ried to the Back of the aircraft with a hoping to get a what he he was its like a picture of he you saw the burst and the All mixed with Green and yellow and Orange you  see any build it was All just Coverd with the bomb fell in a Valley and the blast bounced Back and demolishing everything it a residential area was shielded from the so the death toll immediately and More Over the next four months was smaller than at where people bocks car made a refuelling Stop at Okinawa and landed at Tinian 18 hours after taking As Beahan walked from the plane he realized it was his he was in sorry the War Ever had to Beahan i Hope i go Down in history As the last Man to release an bomb under wartime weve got to find a better