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...Charles "Don" Albury, 84 Co-pilot...
Colonel Paul Tibbets Pilot, commander...
...seconds later than planned. The plane then dropped a single bomb, weighing five 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...
...Charles "Don" Albury, 84 Co-pilot on a B-29 that accompanied the Enola Gay and on the Bockscar...
...Japanese Pilot One man, training to pilot a submarine on a suicide mission, remembers Hiroshima