A Victory Barbeque

Heroes Remember

A Victory Barbeque

Transcript

I think the highlight of our tour was when they dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. And we heard about it and, of course, we didn’t believe it, because we had seen bombs before that were supposed to be very good. And you know, you say, “Oh sure, you knocked out a whole city with one bomb.” And then the next, a day later or so forth, we hear another bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and the Japanese capitulated. And so, that was a very memorable day. Interviewer: What did you do? Well, I, our commanding officer, (inaudible), was up on a palm tree, cutting off the top of it, and so forth. I went out. I thought he’d lost his marbles. He was making a flag pole. And we rounded up every chicken we could find, and sent an aircraft in to Calcutta to pick up all the beer we could get, and we had a marvelous barbeque.

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Mr. Power talks about celebrating the bombing of Hiroshima with a barbeque.

Robert Power

Robert Power was born in 1920, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He grew up in a small fishing village with a one-room schoolhouse. Before enlisting in 1942, Mr. Power studied biochemistry. He served as a pilot in the RAF and spent 26 years in the military. After the war, Mr. Power returned to medicine and became a doctor.

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