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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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When Paul Tibbets was selected to command the Army Air Forces 509th Composite Group, he was given wide liberty to choose personnel, but he could tell selectees nothing of their ultimate mission.

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Reed, B.C. (2020). Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In: Manhattan Project . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45734-1_9

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