Jeppson remembers the mood on the plane was 'very quiet. The mission is largely credited for bringing the war to an end. The bomb killed upwards of 100,000 people, injured scores of others and obliterated the city.
There he sat with 11 other men in the fuselage of a United States Air Force B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay as it soared through the skies over Japan.Ī novice among the seasoned World War II combat vets, Jeppson technically wasn't even part of the flight crew that dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.Ī second lieutenant, the weapon electronics officer was aboard specifically to babysit a 'Little Boy' - the name given to the bomb. But, sitting in the living room of his Las Vegas home, he does remember feeling like a fish out of water. Recollections of that day nearly 55 years ago have begun to fade. Morris 'Dick' Jeppson admits he was a bit of a 'greenhorn' on Aug. Enola Gay crew member Jeppson remembers famed flight
