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Hiroshima Bombing Author Duped

Via Insty, the story of the story about the bomb that bombed.

A new book about the atomic destruction of Hiroshima has won critical acclaim with its heartbreaking portrayals of the bomb’s survivors and is set to be made into a movie by James Cameron.

Charles Pellegrino says he will correct a story in his book contested by Mr. Corliss’s family.

“The Last Train from Hiroshima,” published in January by Henry Holt, also claims to reveal a secret accident with the atom bomb that killed one American and irradiated others and greatly reduced the weapon’s destructive power.

There is just one problem. That section of the book and other technical details of the mission are based on the recollections of Joseph Fuoco, who is described as a last-minute substitute on one of the two observation planes that escorted the Enola Gay.

But Mr. Fuoco, who died in 2008 at age 84 and lived in Westbury, N.Y., never flew on the bombing run, and he never substituted for James R. Corliss, the plane’s regular flight engineer, Mr. Corliss’s family says. They, along with angry ranks of scientists, historians and veterans, are denouncing the book and calling Mr. Fuoco an impostor.

There is ever a market for tales of the murderousness of Amerikkka, and there are ever people like James Cameron who will try to inject them into popular culture. It will be instructive to see what Cameron does in the wake of these counter-revelations.

Fuoco, strangely enough, is Italian for "fire."

It's amazing how stolen valor seems always to involve an anti-American storyline as one of its selling points.

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