Of the 12 men who flew aboard the Enola Gay that day, none knew the four-engine bomber better than Lewis. In the official log, he wrote the words, “My G-d, what have we done?” 6, 1945, flight to drop the bomb on Hiroshima reads: “No#1 Atomic bomb a huge success.” They were part of his extensive wartime archive handed down to his son Steven. Lewis, who died in 1983, filled the logs with his handwritten entries detailing every flight he made while in the Air Force. Robert Lewis didn’t meet the reserve price. warplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 70 years ago didn’t sell at an auction of World War II artifacts.īonhams says bidding Wednesday for the two log books belonging to Enola Gay co-pilot Capt. The personal flight logs of the co-pilot of the U.S. The Enola Gay landing after the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945.
