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Hiroshima

08:15 hrs, August 6th 1945

Before take-off, the crew relax

The Flight-Crew

Ferebee, Van Kirk, Tibbets, Lewis,

Caron, Stiborik, Duzenbury, Nelson, Shumard

“Little Boy”

Reversing the Enola Gay over the

bomb loading bay

Loading “Little Boy”

“Little Boy” was dropped with a parachute from an altitude of 9,600 metres –

about five miles.

It exploded 600 metres above ground.

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.

"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.

The mushroom cloud climbed

to 10,000 metres.

"Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!"

Robert Lewis, the co-pilot

“My God, what have we done?”

- Robert Lewis

Dead: 66,000

Injured: 69,000