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“Where was the morality in the bombing of Coventry, or the bombing of Dresden, or the Bataan death march, or the Rape of Nanking, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor? In a war, there are so many questionable things done. The original log, written by the navigator that day, Theodore Dutch Van Kirk, was sold in. JW: Well, two of our crews went back to the United States to pick up the components of a. I was caught by surprise to find all this material at the museum. Our crew was chosen to be the backup plane for the Enola Gay. And finally, you could see a replica of the Enola Gay’s Navigator’s Log. “It’s really hard to talk about morality and war in the same sentence. B-29 Enola Gay replica and Little Boy bomb replica (at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ). We were fighting an enemy that had a reputation for never surrendering, never accepting defeat. Van Kirk explained in a 1995 interview with the New York Times: “Under the same circumstances – and the key words are ‘the same circumstances’ – yes, I would do it again. The bombing is said to have dramatically shortened the war, forcing the Japanese to surrender. "By 0931 they were flying over Mishima, and just past 29° 43′ E 137° 03′ E, a little over an hour and a half later, Van Kirk notes ’10:52 – Cloud Gone’."
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The log features a detailed description of the attack, as Sotheby’s relates: "At 0915½ (30 seconds past 8:15am Hiroshima local time) in the position field Van Kirk notes the action that would end the war and change the world forever, ‘Bomb Away’, further writing in the remarks field ‘Circle E of Target.’ Bockscar, sometimes called Bocks Car, is the name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped a Fat Man nuclear weapon over the Japanese. Navigator Captain Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, who died in 2014, was the final surviving member of the Enola Gay’s crew. It starred in sale of Americana and books and manuscripts.
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The original log kept by the navigator of the Enola Gay made $372,500 at Sotheby’s New York on December 6.