When he made his reconnaissance at 7.30, he was glad to see, he said later, that strata of cumulus 15,000 feet below him obscured most of the city, but the primary objective was clear and he sent the bomber behind him a message to go ahead. His task was to reconnoitre and report the weather over the target, a bridge connecting one of the main Japanese military headquarters with the skirt of the city of Hiroshima. By RONALD BRYDEN Oo the morning of August 6, 1945, Claude Robert Fatherly, a twenty-six-year-old pilot from Van Aistyne, Texas, was at the controls of Straight flush, the first of the 11-29s which took off from Tinian.
