His order to attack Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, was carried out in no small part by my uncle, Maj.
Paglia’s father was among many thousands spared because of President Truman’s decision to launch a nuclear strike against Imperial Japan. One is Salon columnist Camille Paglia, who in answering a letter from a reader in her April 21 column, mentioned her father’s service during the war, explaining how he and his Army unit, which was slated for an invasion of Japan, were “spared from certain decimation by the two atomic bombs and Japan’s surrender.” Millions of Americans have a personal or family connection to World War II.
