The flight log from the Enola Homosexual's dropping of the primary atomic bomb is up for public sale.
ZUMA Press
The Enola Homosexual flight log that recorded the world’s first atomic bombing offered at public sale for $543,000 on Saturday.
The only in-flight documentation of the American bombing of Hiroshima was made by the Enola Homosexual’s co-pilot Capt. Robert E. Lewis, who was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Ridgefield Park, NJ.
Lewis’ shock-and-awe account of the Aug. 6, 1945 mission was written in pen and pencil through the flight.
" class="wp-image-23081853"/>Bidding began at $400,000. The profitable bidder requested to stay nameless, public sale officers stated.
The world’s first atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima, killing 140,000 folks. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 folks.
American leaders believed the strikes — which led to Japan’s give up every week afterward Aug. 15 — preempted what would have been a protracted land invasion of Japan that might have value 1 million American lives.
The log e-book beforehand offered for $350,000 at a March 2002 public sale in The Large Apple, It was from the gathering of late monetary writer Malcolm Forbes on the time.
The e-book was offered by an nameless consignor on public sale platform Heritage Auctions.
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