What we must not forget are: Paul Warfield Tibbets the Second was an arrogant, insensitive bastard and his contribution to history does not deserve to be lauded.

And secondly, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, Charles Sweeney, who later secretly gave money to an orphanage in Hiroshima, for children whose parents were killed by the bomb and the children of Japanese prostitutes and American GIs who were unwanted, flew a second mission. Originally intended for Kokura, the B-29 Superfortress, Bock's Car, had a faulty fuel transfer pump, which denied Sweeney access to 675 gallons of fuel. He insisted upon flying and Tibbets warned him not to wait more than 15 minutes for the other two aircraft to accompany him on that mission. Perhaps on the urging of Fred Ashworthy, Sweeney waited 45 minutes for another B-29 Superfortress that did not appear.

Only a matter of days before the Hiroshima Mission, a B-29 Superfortress crashed on take-off on Tinian.

Charles Sweeney made an unexpected three bomb runs on Kokura and each time, Kermit Beahan called out, "No drop!" Running lower on fuel, he went to Nagasaki and with the city obscured by cloud, he dropped the bomb into the Urakami Valley, having spotted a gap in the clouds. With just enough fuel, he made a distress landing in Iwo Jima, with one engine having died of fuel starvation. Curtis Le May said, later, "You fucked up, didn't you, Chuck?"

At the time, despite women being considered "the fairer sex" they were seen as expendable.