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‘If I live a hundred years, I’ll never quite get these few minutes out of my mind’: Letter from pilot who dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima reveals how he was 'dumbstruck' by the sight of its destructive power
Tariq Tahir
3-7-18
- Captain Robert Lewis was co-pilot of the B-29 bomber named 'Enola Gay'
- Unofficial contemporary account of the mission is going on sale in New York
- Lewis gave detailed account of the mission and disguised it as a letter to parents
- He talks about the effect seeing the bomb and contemplates the death it caused