The flight of the enola gay

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Van Kirk led the Enola Gay leftward on to a 345-degree heading and began the climb to 30,800 feet.

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Each page with successive entries from the time of take-off to the return to base. 3 pages in pencil, (as all 1094's aviation logs), entirely in his hand. Handwritten by the Navigator of the historic Hiroshima flight Theodore Van Kirk. Completely filled out navigator's log of the Enola Gay. On August 6, 1945, the 'Enola Gay' dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

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