The four-engine B-29 heavy bomber took off at 2: 45 A.M.
from Tinian Island, a US military base in the Pacific Ocean.
It was a Monday, August 6,1945.
Piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the Superfortress
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Dear Paul Hartel, it is a simply beautiful poem and although it is about a tragedy, you have made it seem like a poem about hope and new tomorrows.