![]() When Lewis saw the huge mushroom cloud, he uttered the famous remark "My God, what have we done?" The atomic bombing of the Japanese city killed 140,000 people by December 1945. 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. "I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this. "I am certain the entire crew felt this experience was more than anyone human had ever thought possible," Lewis wrote in the log. 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. 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.
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