Show spotlighting UTAH UT AH i now it can be toll toh I 1 the secret is out the major part utah played in the atom bomb drama after months of strict military secrecy the story of what happened in utah during the fall of 1944 and spring of 1945 relative to the preparation for the atom bombing of japan is is now told by colonel paul W tibbetts Tib belts junior colonel tibbetts pioneered the technique of dropping the atom bomb and according to the colonel dropping atom bombs is highly technical stuff colonel tibbetts organized and secret secretly lv trained the th composite group super flight experts the only unit in in the united states air forces with atomic know how the pay off is this the group was trained in utah over the wendover salt flats and colonel tibbetts was told that what we learn in utah may end the war dropping atom bombs is precision stuff and for months B flying out of human eye range over the utah salt flats practiced practice Zd simulated bomb runs and making a fast turn of degrees even the pilots of these planes know they were practicing to escape the shock waves of an atomic bomb explosion they just f followed ol 01 instructions ns the size the shape and the weight of the atom bomb was worked out at the wendover army air base by colonel tibbetts and his associates under the utmost secrecy to camou camouflage flag e the top secret a buzz bomb testing unit was set up at wendover to occupy the attention of the curious an I 1 atom bemb the cost of which might exceed cannot be dropped carelessly for a lot of reasons it must be dropped w with it h pinpoint pin point accuracy and vast waste spaces in tooele thoele county I 1 proved just the place for training the crews which flattened I 1 japans hiroshima in a saturday evening post story of june 8 colonel tibbetts tells how his men often drove into salt lake city for recreation and where FBI and secret service men in dis disguise u ise often attempted to see if the men were talkative regarding military affairs all proved strictly faithful to their trusts |