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Claude Eatherly

It was in this hospital that he began to correspond with Günther Anders, a Austrian philosopher and pacifist, who became his friend in a battle to promote the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Eatherly was the pilot of Straight Flush, one of seven B-29s of the 393rd Bomb Squadron of the 509th Composite Group that took part in the Hiroshima mission, which was the culmination of ten months of training during World War II.

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