tried to put as much distance between them and the explosion as possible. The unsuspecting Japanese thought the Enola Gay was just another harmless plane and were not threatened by it.įlying in, the crew knew their lives were on the line because of the massive destruction the bomb would cause. When the time came to release the bomb, American forces used a single plane to carry out their mission. American planes flew over Japan numerous times, convincing the opposition that they were taking photographs to document the war. Leading up to the bombing, the crew used deception tactics to eliminate Japanese suspicion.
Tibbets IV showed a documentary about this specific mission which included his grandfather and the 11 other crew members that accompanied him. 19, freshman Avery Tibbets brought her dad, Paul Tibbets IV, to school as a guest speaker to talk to her history class about the day when her great-grandfather (Tibbets IV’s grandfather) dropped the bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. You are facing the unexpected and assigned to do one job: drop a bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.įor students at West, this event is merely something learned in history books however, for Paul Tibbets Jr.
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Von Greim received the telegram at 10:40 pm on May 8. It said all hostilities would cease at 1:00 am on May 9. The surrender order, valued at $20,000 to $30,000, was sent by Karl Doenitz, the last leader of the Third Reich to the head of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Robert von Greim on the evening of May 8, 1945. Japan eventually surrendered on August 15, 1945, after the Americans dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.īut two top lots at the auction failed to sell: a 1945 German surrender order and two of Lewis's log books, which were valued at $150,000–200,000.Ī spokeswoman for Bonhams said that many buyers around the world had expressed interest and that it was "quite common" for post-sale offers to emerge later. When Lewis saw the huge mushroom cloud, he uttered the famous remark "My God, what have we done?" The atomic bombing of the Japanese city killed 140,000 people by December 1945. The single sheet of graph paper shows a pencil and ink drawing of the Enola Gay approaching Hiroshima and on dropping the bomb, turning 150 degrees to the right to avoid the shock waves of the explosion. The same World War II memorabilia auction also sold Lewis's hand-drawn plan for dropping the bomb for $37,500, Bonhams said. The original was sold at auction for $391,000 in 2002 by Christie's. "I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this. "I am certain the entire crew felt this experience was more than anyone human had ever thought possible," Lewis wrote in the log. Lewis wrote the original log on Augas he flew to and from Hiroshima, disguised as a letter to "Mom and Dad" because as there was to be no official account of the top-secret mission, Bonhams said. Robert Lewis, American co-pilot of the B-29 bomber, made the copy in 1945 at the request of the then-science editor at The New York Times, and it includes a pencil sketch of the mushroom cloud, Bonhams auction house said. A copy of a deeply moving pilot's log, written during the top-secret Enola Gay mission that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, was auctioned in New York on Wednesday for $50,000.