![]() Sotheby's notes: "At 0915½ (30 seconds past 8:15am Hiroshima local time) in the position field Van Kirk notes the action that would end the war and change the world forever, 'Bomb Away', further writing in the remarks field 'Circle E of Target.' The Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island, in the Pacific Ocean - around 2,500 miles from Hiroshima, at 2:45 AM. Van Kirk notes down the course of the bomber on the morning of August 6, 1945. ![]() The log is an account of the path of the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945 It's expected to make $300,000-500,000 in the Fine Books and Manuscripts auction at Sotheby's New York on December 6. The log describes the details of the mission that killed more than 70,000 Japanese civilians in the city of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay was the US aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb in the second world war. A log kept by Captain Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, the navigator of the Enola Gay, is offered at Sotheby's.
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