He fled Germany but was arrested by US forces outside Prague and later committed suicide. Von Greim received the telegram at 10:40 pm on May 8. It said all hostilities would cease at 1:00 am on May 9. The surrender order, valued at $20,000 to $30,000, was sent by Karl Doenitz, the last leader of the Third Reich to the head of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Robert von Greim on the evening of May 8, 1945. A spokeswoman for Bonhams said that many buyers around the world had expressed interest and that it was "quite common" for post-sale offers to emerge later. But two top lots at the auction failed to sell: a 1945 German surrender order and two of Lewis's log books, which were valued at $150,000–200,000. When Lewis saw the huge mushroom cloud, he uttered the famous remark "My God, what have we done?" Japan eventually surrendered on August 15, 1945, after the Americans dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. On 6 August 1945, Enola Gay dropped the nuclear bomb Little Boy over Hiroshima. Enola Gay became the first aircraft to drop a nuclear bomb in warfare despite its short service life. The atomic bombing of the Japanese city killed 140,000 people by December 1945. The Enola Gay on Tinian in the Marianas Islands where it took off before bombing Hiroshima in 1945.
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The single sheet of graph paper shows a pencil and ink drawing of the Enola Gay approaching Hiroshima and on dropping the bomb, turning 150 degrees to the right to avoid the shock waves of the explosion. The same World War II memorabilia auction also sold Lewis's hand-drawn plan for dropping the bomb for $37,500, Bonhams said. The original was sold at auction for $391,000 in 2002 by Christie's. Just how many Japs did we kill? "I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this. The pilot, Paul Tibbetts, named the plane for his mother. "I am certain the entire crew felt this experience was more than anyone human had ever thought possible," Lewis wrote in the log. 'Enola Gay' was the name given the USAAF's B-29 bomber that dropped the first-ever atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. The bomb was 'Little Boy', the nuke dropped over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The aircraft is famous for dropping one of the most famous bombs of WWII, if not one of the most then most famous.
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Lewis wrote the original log on Augas he flew to and from Hiroshima, disguised as a letter to "Mom and Dad" because as there was to be no official account of the top-secret mission, Bonhams said. Enola Gay was a B-29 aircraft, nicknamed 'Enola Gay' in honor of the pilots mother. Wichita’s beloved B-29 Superfortress, Doc, took to the skies yet again June 9, 2017, from McConnell Air Force Base, this time with an added aspect of historical significance and Air Force heritage.Sitting in the co-pilot seat was Brig. Robert Lewis, American co-pilot of the B-29 bomber, made the copy in 1945 at the request of the then-science editor at The New York Times, and it includes a pencil sketch of the mushroom cloud, Bonhams auction house said. A copy of a deeply moving pilot's log, written during the top-secret Enola Gay mission that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, was auctioned in New York on Wednesday for $50,000.