A memoir written by Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and the Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. The tapes contain voices of five people, including Tibbets and Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier who pushed the button to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
A memo left with the items suggests that they are copies of records made for the 1977 book 'Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima' written by British authors Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. They were donated to the museum in June last year by the bereaved family of a Japanese person who had owned them. The records include 27 tapes spanning about 30 hours, and 570 pages of transcripts. Museum officials say the existence of those tapes and transcripts had never before been confirmed, adding that they are important as they depict in detail the situation inside the bomber and the psychological state of the crew. Tape recordings of testimonies by Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets and others are shown at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima's Naka Ward, on July 20, 2018.
