WENDOVER, Utah — August 6 marks 80 years since the first time an atomic bomb was ever used, when the Enola Gay, a B-29 Super Fortress, dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, and then three days later dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki.

The historic Wendover Airfield was the training ground for those missions. Eighty years ago, the crews took off from Utah to fly towards Japan.

But on Wednesday, two pilots returned, who 80 years ago no one could have predicted would become friends.

Jim Peterson, the President of the Historic Wendover Airfield Foundation, said, "Today is a rather momentous day in history." He noted that Wendover played "rather an unknown role" in the Manhattan Project.

While that unknown role wasn’t on display, on August 6th, 1945, the world would find out w

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