It may be the greatest single factor to make the Japs surrender unconditionally.' 'Nobody wins at war'īierman, 23, was a tail gunner aboard the Necessary Evil, one of two support planes that accompanied the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the bomb that morning.
'It’s a dream mission, the mission that any American man would be proud to be of. “Tonight, I am going on a mission that will go down in history,' he wrote to his parents. He was young: just five years before, he'd graduated from Passaic High School, a member of the History and Drama clubs. Bierman, the Jewish son of a clothing retailer from Passaic, knew something was up, although he couldn't -or wouldn't - say what.
