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  • Enola Gay's radio operator Richard Nelson dies at 77

    02/06/2003 9:42:15 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 14 replies · 624+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 2/6/03 | AP -Los Angeles
    <p>The B-29 superfortress Enola Gay lands at its Tinian base after its historic atomic bombing mission over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.</p> <p>LOS ANGELES(AP) - Richard Nelson, the radio operator aboard the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, has died. He was 77.</p>