The city was home to 250,000 people, as well as an important. Over the summer of 2019, Global Zero explored what led to the bomb’s development, the consequences of its use, and where we’ve come since those fateful days in August. Van Kirk served as the navigator for a crew of 12 aboard the Enola Gay, helping to guide the aircraft to Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. released another atom bomb on Nagasaki, devastating the city and ushering in the nuclear age. 1941 - Hiroshima, Japan - Japanese Kamikaze or suicide pilots. to the Finish will include a view of the Japanese Okha suicide bomb hanging.
As the city disappeared under a mushroom cloud, Captain Robert Lewis – co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the weapon – wrote in his log “My God, what have we done?” Three days later the U.S. American crew of the plane Superfortress Enola Gay B29 which dropped atomic bomb on. Reporters and film crews were there to record it, including a since famous video of pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets waving from the plane window. Gay, the B-29 bomber that had dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. I am certain the entire crew felt this experience was more than anyone. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Japan – the first time such a catastrophic weapon was ever used in conflict. A photo of the Enola Gay (L) and the flight logs of WWII pilot Captain Robert.
