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...BLAST The Enola Gay dropped the bomb at 8:15:17 a.m. Forty-three seconds later, most of Hiroshima was gone...
...they turned for home and saw the utter destruction of Hiroshima, the men inside the Enola Gay were conflicted. "The war's over," one exulted. "My God, what have we done?" asked co-pilot Robert Lewis. The war was over eight days later, but the threat of nuclear annihilation was just beginning...
...ENOLA GAY The bomb was carried by a B-29 Superfortress stripped of all armament but the tail gun. The day before the mission, pilot Tibbets named the plane after his mother...
AFTERMATH The mushroom cloud over the city eventually rose about 8 miles (13 km). The Enola Gay's tail gunner could still see it when the plane was 350 miles (560 km) away...