From: "Margaret Trawick" <trawick-AT-clear.net.nz>
Subject: Re: The wrong historical example?
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:56:58 +1300


Lt. Colonel Olivi may not have known the real reason for the last minute
change in plans.

Edwin Reischauer was a professor at Harvard when I was an undergraduate
there.  He was not the professor who taught the American history course that
I took.  But he would have engaged in discussions with other professors. I
will not tell you the name of the American history professor who told us
about the bombing of Nagasaki and the behind-the-scenes reasons for it, for
fear that this professor may be targeted for harassment, if he is still
alive.

Reischauer was an advisor to the US Secretary of State on the topic of
Japanese affairs during World War II.  He was present when the decisions
were made to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  You might want to check the
Reischauer archives at Harvard, if you really want to follow up on this.

Hundreds of Harvard and Radcliffe students took that class.  Perhaps we
could correspond with each other, see how many others have saved their
lecture notes, compare them, and publish the story.  I assumed it had
already been published somewhere, but perhaps not.


> The information I have received on the decision to bomb Nagasaki comes
from
> retired Lt. Colonel Fred Olivi, USAF, who was a co-pilot of the plane
which
> dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki August 9, 1945.  He told me the story
of
> the bombing, including the last minute switch in plans, in May and June of
> 1999.
>
> I would be very interested to know who it was who taught students the
> targeting of Nagasaki was done because it had lots of wooden buildings,
and
> to see class notes.
>
> Charles Orlowek
>
>
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