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Legend says that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their heart’s desire come true. In the museum you could read several letters related to the Manhattan Project, for example these two from brigadier general Leslie Groves (in charge of the project) and Albert Einstein:Īs I did in a post I wrote 3 years ago, in order to explain her story I will paste below an excerpt from Wikipedia‘s article on the history of origami (paper birds): Some parts of the museum are truly shocking. You can spend several hours in the museum: from reading about the life in Hiroshima prior to the war, during the war and before the bombing, about the Manhattan Project, learning from specific cases of victims of the bomb, several testimonies, replicas from wounded people, etc. There we visited the Hiroshima Peace Site, museum and park. Luca and I, together with some friends visited Japan during the summer of 2008. However, I thought of writing this post in order to connect several points related to the story, some of which I have only discovered quite recently… I guess you have had the chance to read about it in several places along the day. Today, August 6th, in 1945 the Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay” dropped over Hiroshima (Japan) the first nuclear bomb, “ Little Boy“, used in combat. You can read about Bockscar in the site of the museum, here. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic attack against Hiroshima. That museum enables the visitor to get more close-up experiences to the story of that August 6th of 1945.Īs several other aerospace museums it counts with its own B-29 Superfortress… however, if the Enola Gay is displayed at National Air & Space Museum at Dulles, this one displayed at the National Museum of the Air Force (Dayton) is “ Bockscar“, the aircraft which dropped the “ Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug.
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… last November, we visited the National Museum of the Air Force (1) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. A couple of years ago I wrote a post about that story touching it from different points of view that I had experienced in the previous years: Hiroshima Peace Site, Manhattan Project, Einstein’s “ The World as I see it“, Genbaku Dome, Sadako Sasaki’s origami, the “ Enola Gay“, Enola Gay’s Navigator’s Log replica at Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson… This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.Today, August 6th, in 1945 the Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay” dropped over Hiroshima (Japan) the first nuclear bomb, “ Little Boy“, used in combat. The logbook by the co-pilots of the Enola Gay sold at Christie's for $350,000 in 2002. 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. 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. The log served its purpose as we dropped the atomic bomb both on time and on target. 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. Van Kirk led the Enola Gay leftward on to a 345-degree heading and began the climb to 30,800 feet. Each page has successive entries from the time of take-off to the return to base. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. 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.