ROCKFORD, IL. - A public relations assistant to a co-pilot on the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission is at work on a long-awaited World War III poetry book titled "The Eyewitness."
D.L. Shiloh began work on the project in 1994. His research included a PR stint with Col. Fred J. Olivi (USAF) who was part of the Bockscar crew which delivered the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb onto Nagasaki August 6, 1945. Japan surrendered days later and World War II ended.
"This is a project where I broke from previous writing and did research to make it more realistic than some imagined thing," Shiloh said.
Shiloh's research also included an interview with Manhattan Project scientist Robert Serber, as well as a U.S. Army observer who visited Nagasaki soon after the atomic bomb was dropped, along with forming a rock band named SINGED.
