the Starting price of the lot - $ 20 thousand

the Organizers of the international auction Bonhams are planning to sell a piece of paper on which the American pilot Robert Lewis drew a plan of the bombing of Hiroshima. The initial price was $ 20 thousand.

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April 29 in new York, Bonhams held an auction, which will be put up for sale unique documents, belonging to the pilot of the bomber B-29 "Enola Gay" that dropped on Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Total cost of materials, including a maneuver to avoid the shock wave, the flight log and a note containing the phrase "Oh my God, what have we done...", is estimated to be 440 thousand dollars.



In the collection of documents is a sheet of paper on which are drawn the plan for the bombing of the Japanese cities. On the gure the trajectory of the B-29, the reset point of the atomic bomb "Little one" and the epicenter of the explosion and the subsequent divergence of the shock wave. the

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August 6, 1945 an American bomber B-29 dropped on Hiroshima atomic bomb "Little boy" the equivalent of between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT. According to the documents, the total number of those killed in the bombing of civilians was about 80 thousand people, but because of radiation exposure and post-effects of the explosion of the number of victims has risen to 166 thousand people.

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