Will Campbell also had the unique experience of seeing the return of the Enola Gay after its fateful bombing run over Hiroshima.

So I was on side panel know when the war ended. In fact, I saw the Enola Gay land. I didn’t we didn’t know what had happened, but we knew something big had happened because our CEO, Oliver, said he didn’t know what it was, but he knew it was something very unusual. And. And the next day we heard that they’d dropped the first atomic bomb.

We never heard of atomic bomb. Course. And, because we were when we saw the plane come in, we would go out every afternoon and watch them come back from their bombing raids. And what much to do then, you know, anymore when the fighting going on? at that time that the only entertainment we had was watching the corporate cut hair and they had a Coke machine, and the said, we like to watch vision on, and then we’ll go watch the planes come in.

But we we knew that plane, by name, all of the big plays had a name, but we didn’t know what that word had been or what it had. What had happened till the next day. And, and we were, of course, through an squirting beer all over one another and calling it champagne and throwing rifles and whatever in the Pacific Ocean and celebration.

And one one of the major said, you may live to regret this day. He was the only one who saw it in danger. And what had happened. Yeah.

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