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Hiroshima
08:15 hrs, August 6th 1945
Before take-off, the crew relax
The Flight-Crew
Ferebee, Van Kirk, Tibbets, Lewis,
Caron, Stiborik, Duzenbury, Nelson, Shumard
“Little Boy”
Reversing the Enola Gay over the
bomb loading bay
Loading “Little Boy”
“Little Boy” was dropped with a parachute from an altitude of 9,600 metres –
about five miles.
It exploded 600 metres above ground.
The air temperature at the point of explosion exceeded a million degrees
Celsius.
Temperatures on the ground at the hypocentre rose to 3,000-4,000ºC.
The abrupt change in atmospheric conditions created a giant mushroom
cloud.
"A bright light filled the plane, we turned back to look at
Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud...boiling up,
mushrooming."
Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot, later.
The mushroom cloud climbed
to 10,000 metres.
"Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!"
Robert Lewis, the co-pilot
“My God, what have we done?”
- Robert Lewis
Dead: 66,000
Injured: 69,000