Claude Eatherly, Snow Job
August 6, 1945, Claude Eatherly takes b-29 Straight Flush over Hiroshima and reports that the weather is suitable for releasing the atomic bomb. He then returns to Tinian and is 300 miles from the explosion. After being discharged from the Air Force for cheating on a test, with an honorable discharge, and being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for merely doing his job, he made a career of going mad because of the guilt he felt as a result of the bombing. He stole, forged checks, made a big deal of how the bomb fucked him up, and in general served the left wing around the world as a showpiece on war's affect on even the winners. Major Claude Eatherly, Con Artist. No other member of the 509th Composite Group had any remorse about the attacks. They had just saved a great deal of young men from the horror of invading the home islands. While it is true that Japan was already defeated, George Marshall felt that America was...