Copy of 'Enola Gay' pilot's log fetches $50,000 at auction
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A copy of a deeply moving pilot's log, written during the top-secret Enola Gay mission that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, was auctioned in New York on Wednesday for $50,000.
Robert Lewis, American co-pilot of the B-29 bomber, made the copy in 1945 at the request of the then-science editor at The New York Times, and it includes a pencil sketch of the mushroom cloud, Bonhams auction house said. Lewis wrote the original log on August 6, 1945 as he flew to and from Hiroshima, disguised as a letter to "Mom and Dad" because as there was to be no official account of the top-secret mission, Bonhams said.
"I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this... My God what have we done," he wrote.
