“MY GOD!”
The run was Short and straight. At 9.15 a.m., on August 16, 1945, Major Thomas Ferebee pressed the toggle and the single bomb was away, down through the substratosphere. Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets, the pilot, took back the controls and ten pairs of eyes strained at the plexiglass windows as Tibbets turned the plane broadside to Hiroshima. It took less than sixty seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a “visual shock,” although all wore sunglasses. The first atomic bomb had' been dropped. A few seconds after the flash, the shock waves from the blast reached the Enola Gay, several miles away, and rocked it like a giant burst of flak. From the men who had rung up the curtain on a new era in history burst nothing more original than an awed “My God!”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 64, 18 December 1946, Page 5 (Supplement)
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157“MY GOD!” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 64, 18 December 1946, Page 5 (Supplement)
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