The official AAF still photograph by Technical Sergeant George Robert “Bob” Caron, who was the tail gunner aboard the B-29 “Enola Gay” during the historic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
THIS WEEK IN AMERICAN HISTORY (August 6, 2020)
Wed, 08/05/2020 - 12:54pm
AUGUST 6, 1945 - At 8:15 a.m., at an altitude of 31,600 ft., an American B-29 bomber named “Enola Gay” released the world’s first operational atomic bomb. The bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy,” detonated 50 seconds later 1,800 ft above the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The blast and resulting firestorm destroyed five square miles of the city and killed over 105,000 persons. Another estimated 100,000 persons later died as a result of radiation effects.