Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in warfare. There were three strike planes that flew over Hiroshima that day: the Enola Gay which carried the bomb, and two escort planes, the Great Artiste and the Necessary Evil. Russell Gackenbach was a Second Lieutenant and a navigator on the mission. Today, he is the only surviving crew member from those three planes.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radio Diaries and this is Nellie Gillis with producers
0:05.2	Elisa Scarsay and Micah Hazel.
0:07.0	Hi.
0:08.0	Hey, this is our producer takeover.
0:10.0	Sorry Joe.
0:11.0	Sorry Joe. Before we start today's show, we wanted to let you know that right now is Radio Topia's annual fundraiser.
0:16.0	And for the occasion, our team wanted to come and tell you a few of the favorite things that we've heard from the network recently.
0:22.0	Micah, you go first.
0:24.0	So I recently listened to the Stoop episode,
0:27.0	Don't Call Me Ante, which is basically breaking down
0:30.0	like the word Ante, I use it all the time,
0:32.0	a lot of people of color use it all the time it's like a very endearing term and
0:37.6	This episode really just kind of broke down the ways in which it's actually pretty problematic.
0:45.0	I think something the show just really does well is it takes these just everyday things
0:49.3	in my life or everyday things in black culture and it kind of like flips them on the head a little
0:53.7	bit while also just feeling like a very casual like conversation between friends.
0:58.8	Awesome. How many people in your life do you call auntie. Oh my God like pretty much anyone who's
1:05.0	nice to me. How about you, Elisa? So I recently loved this episode. It was a
1:11.7	collaboration between two of my favorite
1:13.6	radiotopious shows, Articles of Interest and Wait for it. They did this story
1:17.6	about plus-size clothes that was the perfect combo of personal stories and
1:22.0	really fascinating fashion history that I had never thought
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