A pilot who dropped the atomic bomb kept a journal. It’s now for sale.

Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the flight to Hiroshima. “We are now ab0ut 2 hrs from bombs away,” Lewis, 26, wrote as the B-29 approache...

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