Tynan called it "Hamlet with the pilot dropped", and said it was cast with "exuberant oddness".
The first bombing raid came nine days later, when a pilot dropped four grenades on Turkish positions.
The pilot dropped them off on a remote airstrip and took off, promising to pick them up the next day.
They knew they were free when a US plane flew over the prison, and the pilot dropped a small package from the cockpit.
She imagines what might have happened in the few days after the pilot dropped from the sky, while the island was still unaware of the news from Pearl Harbor.
"If, God forbid, some pilot drops a bomb on our people, I'm going to be the first person to say, 'Hey, moron, what were you doing?' " Even so, his focus is constantly shifting from reporter to fighter pilot.
The site is remote and difficult; a helicopter that can carry three people plus the pilot dropped two Safety Board investigators nearby on Wednesday during a brief period when the weather improved, and they hiked an hour to the wreckage.
It is equally natural that she requests an interview with Anton, who gives a speech each year on Aug. 6, the day an American pilot dropped the bomb on, among others, Emiko.
In the audience was the "candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen, now 92, who, as an American airforce pilot, dropped sweets to children during the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, which kept the city's population alive during the Soviet blockade and which became the strongest symbol of US-German friendship.
