Claude Robert Eatherly (2 Oktober 1918 – 1 Juli 1978)[1] adalah seorang perwira dalam Pasukan Udara Angkatan Darat AS pada Perang Dunia II. Ia menjadi pilot pesawat pemantauan cuaca Straight Flush yang mendukung dijatuhkannya bom atom di Hiroshima, Jepang, pada 6 Agustus 1945.

Claude Robert Eatherly
Lahir(1918-10-02)2 Oktober 1918
Van Alstyne, Texas, AS
Meninggal1 Juli 1978(1978-07-01) (umur 59)
Pengabdian Amerika Serikat
Dinas/cabangPasukan Udara Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat
PangkatMayor
Kesatuan509th Composite Group
308th Bomb Wing
Perang/pertempuranPerang Dunia II
pengeboman atom Hiroshima

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  • Günther Anders and Claude Eatherly, Burning Conscience: The case of the Hiroshima Pilot, Claude Eatherly, told in his letters to Günther Anders (1961)
  • Ronnie Dugger, Dark Star: Hiroshima Reconsidered in the Life of Claude Eatherly of Lincoln Park, Texas (1967)
  • Marc Durin-Valois, La dernière nuit de Claude Eatherly (Plon publisher 2012)
  • Maurizio Chierici, The Man from Hiroshima essay from an interview with Eatherly
  • Marie Luise Kaschnitz, 'Hiroshima' (German poem about the Hiroshima pilot)
  • What happens to a driver that kills 100,000 people? Oakland, T., 1962
  • Having destroyed Hiroshima, Correspondence Claude Eatherly, the Hiroshima pilot, with Gunther Anders. Preface by Bertrand Russell and Robert Jungk. Robert Lafont, 1962.

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