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Hiroshima pilot found insane and ordered confined
Former Air Force Maj Claude Eatherly known as the Hiroshima Pilot was declared insane by a Galveston district court jury and ordered committed to a mental hospital. He piloted the advance weather-scouting plane that gave the all clear for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The report also notes the death of Rt Rev Cecil Cooper, 82, former Anglican bishop of Korea, in Lingfield England.
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Air Force
Claude Eatherly
Hiroshima
Galveston, Tex
Eatherly
Lingfield
England
Cecil Cooper
Korea