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Setsu had been physically weak since childhood, due to radiation exposure from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
Tibbets initially organized two air crews: one headed by himself with Robert A. Lewis as co-pilot (cockpit crew of the Enola Gay during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima), the other headed by Sweeney with Albury as the co-pilot.
The "Enola Gay" mix sampled news broadcasts announcing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as well as the J. Robert Oppenheimer quote, "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds."
On August 6, 1945, Albury witnessed the first atomic bombing of Hiroshima as pilot of the instrument observation plane, The Great Artiste, which accompanied the Enola Gay commanded by Tibbets.
He refused to intercede in a debate over the censorship of the manga Barefoot Gen, which depicts the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's culpability in World War II, by a school board in Matsue, stating that young students may not be able to understand its depictions properly.