A Date with the Lonesome Lady

When "The Lonesome Lady was shot down during a bombing run in the Inland Sea of Japan, pilot T. C. Cartwright and his crew became POWs. The men were interned at Hiroshima, and while the author was sent to Tokyo for interrogation, his entire crew was killed by the U.S. atomic bomb. After repatriation, the author comes to terms with the military's failure to properly report the deaths of his crew and eventually returns to ]apan, where a historian has adopted the cause of Americans killed by the atomic bomb. A poignant story featured in the "New York Times Magazine, told for the first time in its entirety and in the author's own words.