Sometimes it was a little degrading to be known that way, for the simple reason that when we got overseas, we never did do anything until the event took place. It was somewhat known as the hottest outfit in the Air Force. Their job was to carry the atomic bomb to Japan and drop it over the Japanese Empire. I was assigned to a heavy bombardment group in the Marianas, whose title was the 509 th Composite Group. The purpose in making this tape is because of an event that took a part of my life, and also of the lives of a group of men of which I was associated in 1945, during World War II.
Raymond Gallagher: My name is Ray Gallagher.