This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses. The Japanese surrendered nine days later. Little Boy had enough force to wipe out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Enola Gay gradually descended and turned south, arriving in Tinian at 2:58 pm Tinian time. ferebee) - hfsid 284415 ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS, THEODORE VAN KIRK and THOMAS FEREBEE All three signed this 18x24 color poster of the navigator's log from the Hiroshima mission.
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tibbets), enola gay crew (colonel thomas w. Double mounted in cream and black to an overall size of 16 x 12 inches. Van Kirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945. At 9:15 Tinian time, at an altitude of 31,060 feet and an air speed of 200 mph, Van Kirk listed "Bomb Away" in the Position column. enola gay crew - autographed signed poster co-signed by: enola gay crew (theodore van kirk), enola gay crew (paul w. Theodore Van Kirk Signed Photo - blue ink autograph of Theodore Van Kirk on a black and white photo. The plane gradually gained in altitude until it passed over its target of Hiroshima.
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The reproduction navigation log documents Van Kirk's notes as they passed landmarks, such as Iwo Jima and Mishima, Japan. Powers Sports Memorabilia Dutch Van Kirk & Russell E Gackenbach signed WWII Color 8x10 Photo Navigators Enola Gay Hiroshima & V-82 -JSA EE63505 PSM. Their objective was to drop an atomic bomb, called Little Boy, on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, located some 2,500 km to the northwest. Overall size measures 18" x 24".Įnola Gay's 12-person crew left their home base at Tinian, in the Northern Mariana Islands, at 2:45 am Tinian time on August 6, 1945. Supplemented by a schematic showing Enola Gay's route inset at lower right, and Van Kirk's comments about local time, geography, and navigational calculations inset at lower center. "Dutch" Van Kirk (1921-2014) as "Dutch Van Kirk / Navigator- Enola Gay/Hiroshima " . Enola Gay Navigator's Log Signed by Dutch Van KirkĪ color poster reproducing the Augnavigation log of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, signed lower left by navigator Captain Theodore J.