- Like a child's drawing, US pilot's plan to drop the world's first atom bomb on Hiroshima
- Captain Robert Lewis was in the Enola Gay B29 bomber on August 6, 1945
- Remarkable drawings put to auction by his son expected to fetch £300,000
Source : daily mail
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Can we get them to do one for ISIS please?
LOL Your Funny, USA, United States
Child like!! I know of NO children who can draw precise target diagrams on graph paper with a few pens.
Slick Vic, Anytown
There was a time when the USA joined wars to win them. We should get back to that.
jay, Ex-pat in Oz and loving it, Australia
Your front page headline is a gross insult. A child's drawing indeed. These men planned and carried out a very difficult, world changing mission and did so very effectively. You may or may not agree with what they were ordered to do, but at least allow them the respect they deserve. Describing their target diagram as a child's drawing is purile.
Healer, Huntsville
That generation of men with pencils, paper, math and science did what most people could not do today with computers. Not only did this generation win WWII with their bravery and inventions but they developed nuclear power and transcontinental jet travel. And within twenty five years of winning WWII, they successfully sent men to the moon several times. Amazing.
Thequeensucks, Japan, United Kingdom
Disgusting cowards.
→ RobertG, Rockville, United States
Are you referring to the sneak attack on pearl harbor.
→ Dadyourweird, Uranus, United States, 5 months ago
Payback for Pearl Harbor and the Bataan Death March.
→ SunnyGirl, Rockwall, United States
How dare you? You probably wouldn't be here if not for those "cowards." Grow up.
→ snow, drift, United States
I'll tell you what cowardice is. A bunch of doctors luring our soldiers into a room under the pretense of helping them with their wounds, holding them down and dissecting them ALIVE. Read what was reported just last week about your own country's cowardice before you make ignorant comments.
seventhsense, hereinmycity
150,000 human beings killed, imagine Americans were brave enough to kill these many people in a sword battle. Cowards! Bravery or heroism was dead the day first bullet was fired on this planet.
Taofledermaus, Youtube, United States
We never would have understood how horrific the atom bomb is, if they had never been used.
pugsey, brisbane, Australia
Specsavers for the reporter.The photo showing the war time log books of Captain Lewis are clearly labelled American Overseas Airlines and are dated 1946.
The Sarge, Perth, Australia
But what would have been the consequences had we not done this? How long would the war have gone on? The correct decision was made at the time. No room for guilt.
Melen Colia, Somewhere, France
And those two bombs have been a very good deterrent ever since.
lemonbrigade, Dallas
From a moral, humanist perspective, the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings were two of the most heinous crimes in human history. Period. However, from a utilitarian perspective, the bombings likely prevented far more casualties on both sides (if the alternative was full-scale land invasion and Japan's military leaders were not going to surrender) and acted as a deterrent to future nuclear warfare. Japan immediately went from violent empire to one of the most pacifistic countries in the world. The ethical question will never be solved because it all depends on the ethical light in which you look at it with the benefit of hindsight.
chocaholic 57, Halifax, United Kingdom
He was a pilot not an artist, so why would his drawing be any better, it show what he had to do , which was all that was needed, he did his job which he felt shame for afterwards but it was felt that it was the only way to end the war with Japan, they were probably right but the death counts of both bombs must have haunted these men forever.
Catflap, Chester, United Kingdom
The bombs shortened the war and in doing so reduced the amount of civilian and military casualties an invasion of Japan would have brought. Let's not forget it was thought Japan would have fought on home ground until the country was taken, they also held vast areas of SE Asia and China; who can say what atrocities they would have committed if the Emperor had fallen.
Peter, Windsor
The 2 bombs gave Japan a face saving way of surrendering a land invasion would have killed millions. As every person was trained and excepted to fight to the death. The death toll from these 2 bombs was lower than Dresden in Germany and the raids on Tokyo so the number killed was not the shock it was it took only 1 bomb each not a 1000 planes on the other raids. Japan still does not acknowledge or teach their children the disgusting barbaric actions against the populations of the countries they attacked or the way they treated POWs. THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED so do not cry for them.
Honisty, Xinhua, China
I went to Hiroshima last year. It's such a sad place, especially the memorials and the memorial museum. I'm of the opinion that the US wanted to demonstrate the power of the weapon to their other powerful allies - the Russians. Japan had been practically annihilated by the conventional bombing carried out by the US 8th air force which had deliberately left Hiroshima and several other potential targets untouched so the after-effects of such a weapon could be analysed...
→ Mick, Sydney, 5 months ago
The Pearl Harbor Arizona Memorial is a sad place, too. Let's not ever forget that.
username_2000, Los Angeles, United States
Today the USA and Japan are among the closest of allies, but things were very different in those extremely brutal days. We will always mourn the innocent lives that were taken by the dropping of the bombs, but never the fact that it may have helped bring an end to the war.
Steve Bach, New York, United States
I was lucky enough to have met Paul Tibbets, the Pilot who flew Enola G ay and dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. He told me some memorable stories about that historic day. Mr. Tibbets was a founding owner of todays NetJets, the largest private jet company in the world. In the beginning it was called Executive Jet Aviation. At a dinner party Mr. Tibbits told me about that day from start to finish and it made me shiver with fear because he did not know if he was going to live after the bomb was dropped. One of the most remarkable men I have ever met. Mr. Tibbets was larger than life, and I am please to have met the man. Mr. Bruce Sundlun was also an owner of EJA back in the day and he was a WW II Pilot was well, he shared many stories with me about his service. That sketch of Ground Zero is almost the same drawing Mr. Tibbits sketched on a paper at the dinner party, but much more rustic. When he dropped the bomb, it felt like the plane lifted several hundred feet. The Greatest Generation.
Rdo, AM, Brazil
Now, looking back, it is easy to say Horrible!. But, when the enemy "invents" something "special" to kill hundreds, . like the kamikaze, something special to kill got to be "invented" in return.. War is war!.
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