Durden Looper and crew of the Lonesome Lady

An excerpt from http://www.outsider.gol.com/magazine/septmber/hiroshima.html: (link now broken)
On July 28, 1945, thirty-three B24 Liberator bombers from Okinawa attacked and sank one of Japan’s last battleships, the Haruna, in the heavily defended anchorage at Kure, thirty miles from Hiroshima.
Two B24s, Taloa and Lonesome Lady, were shot down. The surviving crewmen were brought into Hiroshima where they were held, together with other captured American airmen, in the local Japanese military police headquarters by chance, less than eight hundred yards from where the Enola Gay’s atom bomb was soon to explode. All the prisoners and their guards were killed, or died soon after.

Lt. Durden William Looper was on board the B24 Liberator Lonesome Lady.

The other crew members were:
2nd. Lt. James M Ryan 2nd Lt. Ralph Neal Sgt. Hugh Atkinson Sgt. Buford Ellison Cpl. John Long

see: http://www.interment.net/data/us/mo/stlouis/jeffbarr/l/jeffbarr_l12.htm for burial information.