 ["First into Nagasaki" page 3] Since the bomb did not descend by parachute (a fact well known twenty years later) this description is incorrect.Parachutes were attached to instruments were dropped by support-planes during the mission to measure the effects of the blast.In the same 1967 account Weller asserts that Nagasaki, prior to August 9, 1945 "...in the face of all logic, it had been spared so far...Streams of B-29s flowed north and south around it, but this prime target remained mysteriously untouched."