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Soldiers Posing in Front of the Enola Gay Airplane on Tinian Island

2020-01
Accession Number
2020-01
4 X 2.3 inches
Black & White
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Written on back: "Casey, Bloom, Sweeney, Meismer, Dailey. B-29 that dropped first Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima Aug. 6th 1945. This taken in Sept. of 1945." Fourth the left is Irwin R. "Bob" Meismer. Five American soldiers posing in front of the Enola Gay airplane on the island of Tinian. This photo is part of the Irwin R. "Bob" Meismer Photographs Library Collection.

Date(s)
September 1945