Jewish Fliers Took
Part in Atom Raids

of Nagasaki. , Both were awarded
the DFC for their share in that
"extraordinhry achievement."
« * *
DIFFERENT TARGET
THE NAGASAKI STRIKE
proved to be more hazardous to
the fliers than its predecessor,
just as the bomb they delivered
carried greater dstructive power.
The 13-29 which set out on the
Aug. 9 mission was not at its
start headed for Nagasaki at all.
Its mission was the industrial
city of Kokura. For 1,500 miles
the superfort with its atomic
burden flew, from its base on
Tinian island, to the Japanese
target city and while the obser-
vation planes hovered close by,
it struck out along the bomb run
—hopefully but without assur-
ance. For above the target city
NONE TOO HAPPY
"THROUGHOUT THE mis- hung a heavy layer of cloud and
said Lt. Beser's citation smoke, blotting it completely
'00.h . e his Silver Star award, "the from sight.
Once and then again and again
element of hazard from the un-
known prevailed, for this was the superfort made the bomb
the first time this bomb, much run, but never a hole opened in
more destructive than any other the blanket of mixed smoke and
in existence, had been dropped fog, that might give the bombar-
f rom an airplane , ." dier a chance to sight on an aim-
Homeward bound from the ing point. When the third try
Hiroshima mission, certain now had failed, and when at about
of its terrific success, the atom that time the barking of anti-
bomb men thought and wondered aircraft guns came up from be-
about this thing they had let low, any further attempts were
loose upon the earth: About the abandoned as not only hopeless
dead and wounded, to be counted but suicidal.
The atom-bearing plane and
by the tens of thousands, their
single bomb had left in a fleet- its observation escorts headed
ing instant, there in Hiroshima; away from there fast and sought
and about the future of war, out a secondary or alternative
Like men and women now all objective. That was Nagasaki.
over the world, they were op- Thus it happened that the last
pressed by the thought that this —atomic blow of the war fell on
must mean the end of war—or Nagasaki and that Kokura was
the end of the human race. spared.
I * *
Also on the Hiroshima mission,
DEVASTATING
EFFECT
flying as radio operator in one
of the two observation planes, THE CITATION WITH the
was Sergt. Abe H. Spitzer of the DFC award which went to both
Bronx, N.Y. He and Lt. Beser Lt. Beser and Sergt. Spitzer
were together on the plane which noted:
dropped the second atom bomb, "Finding their primary objective
on the Japanese industrial city obscured by smoke, they (the

(Continued from page 4, Sect. 5)
most every morning, when the
B-29's in heavy formation flew
by, bound for targets elsewhere.,
Hiroshima itself, with its quar-
ter of a million population, had
bean let alone by the big bomb-
ers and though the quarter mil-
lion worried about that, and ru-
mors spread that the Americans
were preserving the city for some
extra-special punishment, this
in Hiroshima started like many
other days for months past.
The alarm sounded and then
as the B-29 formations disap-
peared came the all-clear. When
the bearer of the atom bomb and
her two escort planes appeared
overheard they aroused no new
alarm.
* * *

W in

was dropped while the B-29' was SYNAGOGUE IN HANGAR
THE SHOOTING WAR came
close to the ground, as might
have occurred during engine to an end, with the help of the
20th Air Force, in mid-August
trouble."
1945. In September, the High
Flying as bombardier-naviga- Holy Days were celebrated by
tor of one instrument (observa- the Jewish men of the 20th, in
tion) ship was Capt. Charles solemn yet joyous services of a
Levy of Philadelphia. And four sort that that part of the world,
hours after the bomb's explosion, or any part of the world, had
a photo reconnaissance plane never witnessed before.
moved in over the devastated
The Synagogue for this first
city, brought back photographic after-the-war Holy Day services
evidence of the havoc wrought. was a great B-29 hangar on
Said the DFC . citation of Lt. Guam, There, for Rosh Hash 7
Frederick Charnes of Los Ange- onah services beginning on the
les, who was the navigator:
night of Friday, Sept. 7, and
"Due to the daring of this again for Yom Kippur 10 days
crew, information of the greatest later, 1,500 Jewish men in uni-
military, scientific and historical form assembled to worship, to
value was secured. Photographs, give fervent thanks to God for
the first depicting the destruction victory and returning peace.
at Nagasaki, were speedily re-
turned to Guam." In addition
to the usual dangers there were
"the unknown perils connected Rosh Hashonah Greetings
with flying over this city so re-
and Best Wishes to the Entire
cently subjected to atomic bomb-
Outstanding In the Soviet
ing."
scientific world is Prof. Reva
Jewish Community
Dulkin, a Russian Jewish
author of some 20 scientific
works together with Profs.
Season', Greetings
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she succeeded in creating a
bismuth of rare purity. The
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Woman Scientist

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crew) made three bomb runs in
an effort to fulfill the original
plans but were then forced to
turn to the secondary target.
"Despite a rapidly dwindling
gasoline reserve, they reached
th targt and released the bomb
on the important industrial city
of Nagasaki with devastating ef-
fect.
The power of this missile was
so great as to threaten disinte-
gration of the aircraft if it had
been detonated while still in the
, bomb bay by a burst of flak or
a hit by enemy fighters, or if it

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