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A-Bomb Pilot Signed Document

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Pilot of the Plane That Escorted the Enola Gay over Hiroshima
(ATOMIC BOMB), Charles Sweeney.
Document Signed, “Charles Sweeney” on the bottom of a Presentation piece (5 of 12) from the Genchi collection, June 2001, no place, 11” x 8.5,” Choice Mint condition. Sweeney piloted the escort plane that accompanied the “Enola Gay” - the bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. On August 9, 1945, Sweeney was the commander of “Bock’s Car,” the B-29 bomber that dropped the second atomic bomb, this time on Nagasaki, Japan. This document recounts some of Sweeney’s experience, “As I watched the bomb falling free on its forward arc, a thought flashed through my mind: ‘It’s too late now. There are no strings or cables attached. We can’t get it back, whether it works or not. But if it works, it just might end the war.’”

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