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The logbook by the co-pilots of the Enola Gay sold at Christie's for $350,000 in 2002.
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Being that a later copy of Einstein's relativity manuscript, rewritten in his hand 40 years after the original, sold for over 5 million dollars, we feel this log also has an historic value. This one, here offered, is not the original log used on the plane, but a later handwritten version, also entirely in the hand of Dutch Van Kirk, with all the original entries of the original log. The original Enola Gay Log made on Augwas auctioned in 2007, with an estimate of $350,000 to $450,000. Dutch Van Kirk, Navigator Enola Gay 6 Aug. Within a week, Russia would join the war, another bomb. As you can see on the log, the atomic bomb was dropped at 9:15 AM, Tinian time when we were at an altitude of 31,060 feet over Hiroshima. One of the aircraft, the Enola Gay, would drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was targeted. The log served its purpose as we dropped the atomic bomb both on time and on target. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The target was the Aioi Bridge in Hiroshima. The purpose of the log was to record flight data I used during the flight to keep the plane on course and on time. On the first of three pages, Van Kirk has written, "This Navigator's log has been filled out entirely in my own hand as I did during our historic flight over Hiroshima to drop the first Atomic Bomb on August 6, 1945. 6, 1945, bombing mission that changed the world. Van Kirk led the Enola Gay leftward on to a 345-degree heading and began the climb to 30,800 feet. Lewis, a 27-year-old pilot from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, logged a total of 36 flights aboard the Enola Gay, including the Aug. He does look like an old man, but not a 90-year-old man. His gaze, even with the heavied lids of age, is intense. Today, in his nineties, Paul Tibbets is still a handsome man. Each page has successive entries from the time of take-off to the return to base. General Paul Tibbets lived for decades with the memory of dropping the atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Enola Gay Crew back row (L-R) Major Ferebee, Captain Van Kirk, Colonel Tibbets, Captain Lewis. Document Signed, “Dutch Van Kirk”, as Navigator - Enola Gay, 3 pp., in graphite, August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, 23” x 9”, being a navigator's log of the Enola Gay. Navigator’s Flight Log of the Enola Gay Atomic Bomb Mission to Hiroshima Entirely Filled Out in the Hand of Dutch Van KirkĮNOLA GAY.