U.S. forces night flight frightens Hiroshima citizens

An unidentified aircraft which flew low over Hiroshima City for about one minute on the night of March 18 turned out to be a U.S. military jet.

The Hiroshima Regional Defense Facilities Administration Bureau informed Hiroshima City of the fact on March 29. The bureau had learned that the aircraft in question was a U.S. military jet on March 26. But the name of the plane and the altitude is still to be made known.

Hibakusha groups were angered by the night-time flight by the first U.S. military plane to fly over the atom-bombed city.

Yoshioka Yukio, vice-director of Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Sufferers' Organization (Hiroshima Hidankyo) said, "Such a dangerous training exercise, which the U.S. military would never carry out on their homeland, must not be tolerated in Japan. Such a risky drill over the "peace city" of Hiroshima is just out of the question." (end)