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Enola Gay: Dutch Van Kirk

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Enola Gay: Dutch Van Kirk

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 17 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: Day of the Bomb. First edition. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1986. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6.5 x 9.25, 546 pages. Signed on the first free end page: “A fascinating book about President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb. The book states that one of the main U. S. aims was to end the war before Russia could thrust into Manchuria and take China. The mission to drop the bomb was assigned to our crew. I was the navigator, and we dropped the bomb as planned on Hiroshima. The mission was a total success and the war ended as planned. Even Oppenheimer was worried atomic bomb U235 as it would be the only weapon in history that would be used without a test. Theodore J. Van Kirk, Navigator—Enola Gay, 6 Aug 1945.” Book description: VG+/VG+. Black cloth-covered spine and red paper-covered boards; slight rubbing to edges; minor soiling to textblock edges. Dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve; minor creasing to edges with one larger crease at rear upper edge; very slightly soiled.