Nagasaki. The second 'Atomic Bomb

As a child of 13 in 1945, I have vague memories of sitting up until 2pm or 3pm AET Australia, to hear a radio broadcast from the cabin of the plane which dropped the second of the Atomic Bombs, this time on Nagasaki. No one else I've talked to heard this and I now begin to doubt my own memories. Was this broadcast made?

[stephen]

Wasn't that the one dropped by... what was the name... Boxcar? If so, I heard the pilot speak and he never mentioned it.

There was a radio program in that time period that was called "You are There" (or some such) that re-created important highlights of the war. The actual bomb droppings were cloaked in Top Secrecy and the second bomb was a tactical failure, in that it missed its intended target by miles.
Furthermore, a broadcast from a single attacking bomber would have attracted swarms of interceptors.

[Barrett]

The Nagasaki B-29 with the plutonium bomb was named "Bock's Car" for the assigned pilot, but the aircraft commander was Maj Charles Sweeney, who wrote a memoir a few years ago. I suspect that the radio broadcast was an announcement, possibly from Pres. Truman, similar to the one he made about Hiroshima three days before.
See "Downfall" by Richard Frank (Random House, '99) for an excellent treatment of this subject. Rich is the same author of the definitive "Guadalcanal."

[stephen]

Yeah! Yeah... what he said! Bock's Car... heard Sweeney in Chicago about 10 years ago, and he still vehemently defended the use of the bomb. Was actually a pretty good speaker, and his grasp of the necessity to use the bomb was very convincing. What was the tactical scoop on missing the target? What were they aiming at, as opposed to what did they hit?

Stephen,
Better yet ... did it matter given the radius of the blast?
VBR,
Jim - Bonafide member of the "Nuke 'em til they glow committee" and the Napalm Sticks To Kids Club. ; )