1945 - just in time

Enola Gay navigator has 'no regrets'
The bomb killed an estimated 100,000 Japanese, but it ended the war and precluded an invasion of Japan, and Mr Van Kirk says he has no regrets. None of them did.

The last hurdle they had to pass was the final reduction in rations in 1945, and it is probably true that liberation came with a small margin of safety for many of them, in fact only just in time.

The news of the peace came just in time for some of the nurses, who were very weak.