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B-29 Cockpit


[The cockpit of the B-29 bomber, Enola Gay]

The cockpit of Boeing Superfortress Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Bombadier Thomas Ferebee used the Norden bombsight (center), a mechanical analog computer, to help him determine the exact moment the bomb needed to be released to hit its target.


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