Column: On an August anniversary, memories of the atomic bomb from a crew member who dropped it on Nagasaki
- Posted on July 30, 2025
- By Chicago Tribune
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Column: On an August anniversary, memories of the atomic bomb from a crew member who dropped it on Nagasaki

The late Ray Gallagher of Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood was an assistant flight engineer on the B-29 that dropped the bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki 80 years ago.