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George R. Caron transcript, 1942-1945, 1995, Date accessioned: 2003-04-02

 

Summary

Creator:
Caron, George R. (George Robert), 1919-1995
Extent:
1 folders 1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], George R. Caron transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-04-0299

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Staff Sergeant George R. Caron who served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Caron was the tail gunner on the "Enola Gay" B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This collection contains an oral history interview transcript.

Biographical / historical:

George R. Caron was born on October 31, 1919 in Flatbush, New York. Caron served in the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. He trained in Denver, Great Bend, Kansas, and Wendover, Utah with Paul Tibbets. He joined the 509th Group where he trained for high altitude flying. Caron served as the tail gunner for the B-29 Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. As a tail gunner, he had the best view of the bomb and took photographs of the mushroom cloud using a K-20 Army camera. Canon passed away on June 3, 1995 at the age of 75. He is buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], George R. Caron transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-04-0299

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA