Word: enola
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Army Air Force Captain Robert A. Lewis set off toward Hiroshima as copilot of the Enola Gay on Aug. 6, 1945, he began a brief log of the mission, scribbling on the backs of War Department forms. Last week the diary was auctioned off at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries for $37,000 to a rare-manuscript dealer. In it, there was a glimpse, as in a time-lapse film, of the moment when men first used the Bomb against one another...