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James Cameron has stepped forward to defend author Charles Pellegrino. Pellegrino has seen his book “Last Train From Hiroshima” pulled out of circulation after publisher Henry Holt and Company found inaccuracies that the author had no reasonable explanations for.

Cameron, in an email to the Associated Press, said: “All I know is that Charlie would not fabricate, so there must be a reason for the misunderstanding,”

Veterans of the 509th Composite Group take issue with Cameron’s defense of Pellegrino. They carried out the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. On Wednesday they released a statement that about the problems with the book calling it “complete fiction and cause great damage to true history.”

The 509th has been critical of the book since it’s release in January, challenging the veracity of Pellegrino’s work and research.

They offered to meet with James Cameron saying: “However, we stand by our offer to help Mr. Cameron to make an historically accurate film about these important events,”

I understand Cameron trying to defend his friend and colleague but he might want to take a step back from all of this. We’re talking well documented history. There are people who lived this event who surely know more about it than James Cameron or Charles Pellegrino.

Wisely Cameron has said he will try to meet with members of the 509th privately. He still wants to do a movie about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I shudder to think of history that important in his hands. I see him being far more into special effects than getting into the depth that an exploration of events of that magnitude require. Will he make a 3D Hiroshima/Nagasaki film? That would be a terrible mistake.

I think this is a story best told by someone else. That he stands by a book that’s been discredited doesn’t make a strong case for him as the right director to put this complex and terrible moment in history on film.