Word: 180ë
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...tons. Says Van Kirk: "I was timing it with my watch. It was supposed to take 43 seconds, and we all concluded it had been a dud, because it took longer. Then it exploded." The pilot of the Enola Gay, Colonel Paul Tibbets, had put the plane into a 180?? turn to the west and was getting away from the target as fast as he could. "All we saw," recalls Van Kirk, "was a bright flash...
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