Hiroshima

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Hiroshima

• 0815 hrs, August 6th 1945

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Before take-off, the crew relax
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The Flight-Crew
Ferebee, Van Kirk, Tibbets, Lewis, Caron,
Stiborik, Duzenbury, Nelson, Shumard
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Little Boy
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Reversing the Enola Gay over the bomb loading bay
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Loading Little Boy
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Little Boy was dropped with a parachute from an
altitude of 9,600 metres about five
miles. It exploded 600 metres above ground.
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The air temperature at the point of explosion
exceeded a million degrees Celsius. Temperatures
on the ground at the hypocentre rose to
3,000-4,000ºC. The abrupt change in atmospheric
conditions created a giant mushroom cloud.
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"A bright light filled the plane, we turned back
to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that
awful cloud...boiling up, mushrooming."
Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot, later.
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The mushroom cloud climbed to 10,000 metres.
"Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!"
Robert Lewis, the co-pilot
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My God, what have we done? - Robert Lewis
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Dead 66,000 Injured 69,000
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