![wwii enola gay crew wwii enola gay crew](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OCEB8Com-sw/U9pyIq1nRzI/AAAAAAAAKeo/9WyqMdUTAiY/s1600/enolagaycrew.jpg)
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images All told, at least 100,000 people died from the explosion and resulting firestorm that leveled a four-square-mile section of Hiroshima.Īll told, at least 100,000 people died from the explosion and resulting firestorm that leveled a four-square-mile section of Hiroshima. Some were vaporized by the initial blast others were charred beyond recognition by the incredible heat. Thousands of Japanese died immediately following the detonation of Little Boy, the nickname of that first atomic bomb.
![wwii enola gay crew wwii enola gay crew](https://acepilots.com/pto/enola-gay-crew.jpg)
Then there was a flush of neutrons from the fireball that followed, and that was the primary killing mechanism.” “It was like a gigantic sunburn over the entire area.
![wwii enola gay crew wwii enola gay crew](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61pxdXiLJML._AC_SX569_.jpg)
“There was a 10,000-degree flash of intense light,” says historian Richard Rhodes, who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
![wwii enola gay crew wwii enola gay crew](https://www.prices4antiques.com/item_images/medium/24/45/34-1.jpg)
Seventy-five years ago, on August 6, 1945, the world entered the nuclear age with the detonation of the first atomic bomb in warfare over Hiroshima, Japan. The next, a brilliant flash of light blinded everyone and altered the course of history. One moment, it was a warm summer’s day with a few clouds in the sky. "Bob" Caron Story, Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay about his "eye-witness account of the momentous event when the world was catapulted into the Atomic Age, the introduction of atomic capability, the technical development of the B-29, and the events that put him into the tail gun turret of the Enola Gay.Everything changed in an instant. In May 1995, he published the book Fire of a Thousand Suns, The George R. Caron's photographs of the explosion were printed on millions of leaflets that were dropped over Japan the next day.Ĭaron graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School (Brooklyn, New York) in 1938. A handheld 16 mm film camera on The Great Artiste captured the only known motion film of the explosion. Russell Gackenback, Navigator aboard then unnamed Necessary Evil, took two still photographs of the cloud about one minute after detonation using his personal AFGA 620 camera. Film from another handheld was mishandled in developing, making Caron's the only official still photographs of the explosion. After the mission, Ossip developed photos from all the aircraft, but found that the fixed cameras failed to record anything. Immediately before the mission, the 509th's photography officer, Lieutenant Jerome Ossip, asked then Staff Sergeant Caron to carry a handheld Fairchild K-20 camera. Of the four 509th Composite Group aircraft assigned to the Hiroshima bombing, Caron's camera and two others captured the explosion on film. Facing the rear of the B-29, his vantage point made him the first man to witness the cataclysmic growth of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima.Ĭaron was also the only photographer aboard, and took photographs as the mushroom cloud ascended. Technical Sergeant George Robert Caron (Octo– June 3, 1995) was the tail gunner, the only defender of the twelve crewmen, aboard the B-29 Enola Gay during the historic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of " Little Boy" photographed by Bob Caron.