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CREW OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI BOMBING MISSIONS (WORLD WAR II.) Group of 4 items, each Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by one of 4 principal crew members of the bombers Enola Gay or Bockscar. Each 11x9 or 8x10 inches; generally good condition. Np, nd
Theodore Jerome Van Kirk. AMS, "Theodore J 'Dutch' Van Kirk / Navigator--Enola Gay," in pencil, with ink drawing, a souvenir diagram showing the escape plan of the Enola Gay bombing run on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, including several holograph annotations, in pencil, indicating altitude, airspeed, detonation time, etc. 1 page, 4to Paul W. Tibbets. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "Pilot of this airplane / over Hiroshima--6 Aug 45," showing his head emerging from a cockpit window of the Enola Gay. Inscribed in the image, center. 8x10 inches Thomas W. Ferebee. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "Col. USAF Ret. / Bombardier of Enola Gay / Bombed Hiroshima Japan, Aug. 6, 1945," showing nearly the entire Enola Gay on the ground. Inscribed in the image, upper center. 8x10 inches Charles W. Sweeney. Typescript Signed, "ChsWSweeney," a two-paragraph statement entitled, "Nagasaki, Japan," beginning: "The shock of the explosion was felt by those of us in the strike plane." 1/2 page, 4to.
