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Interview with John Macnab, member of Jay Force

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Year
1995
Reference
21714
Media type
Audio

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Year
1995
Reference
21714
Media type
Audio

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Categories
Interviews (Sound recordings)
Oral histories
Sound recordings
Duration
00:18:00
Broadcast Date
Aug 1995
Credits
RNZ Collection
Macnab, John, Interviewee
Sullivan, Jim, 1946-, Interviewer
New Zealand Mobile Broadcasting Unit
Radio New Zealand (estab. 1989), Broadcaster

Jim Sullivan interviews Dr John Macnab of Cheviot Rd, Lowry Bay, Eastbourne, Wellington for "Sounds Historical" on the 50th anniversary of V.J. Day.

He was one of the New Zealand 'J Force' soldiers recorded on a 1946 Broadcasting Mobile Unit disc, talking about their visit to Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb had been dropped.

Dr Macnab heard the interview on air, and got in touch with Jim Sullivan. He talks about his experiences in Hiroshima and Japan after the bomb and on subsequent visits he has made to Japan.

He observes that the morality of dropping an atomic bomb on civilians was not a consideration at the time and gives his opinion on whether the bombing shortened the war