ENOLA GAY CREW (GEORGE R. CARON) - CURRENCY SIGNED - HFSID 146652
Sale Price $180.00
Reg. $200.00
ENOLA GAY CREW: GEORGE R. CARON. Currency signed: "George
R. Caron/Tail Gunner -/Enola Gay", 6x2½. One dollar U.S. Federal Reserve
Note, Series E, 1988. George R. "Bob" Caron was the tail gunner on the
Enola Gay on its historic mission to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Japan on August 6, 1945. Seated in the rear of the B-29, he was the first
to see the mushroom cloud. Caron had been given a camera at the last moment
and snapped a roll of photographs as the mushroom cloud ascended. His
photographs of the explosion were printed on millions of leaflets that were
dropped over Japan the next day. Caron died in 1995. Lightly creased.
Slightly soiled. Fine condition.
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