Witness accounts run the gamut, but everyone remembers the blinding flash of light. Schoolgirls saw it through their classroom windows moments before the ceiling crashed down on top of them. Middle school student Michiko Yamaoka remembers "a very strong light, a flash," just as her face ballooned and her body flew into the air.
The Enola Gay's (the B-29 bomber that dropped the bomb) pilot, Col. Paul Tibbetts, remembers how "the bright light filled the plane ... the whole plane cracked and crinkled from the blast. We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud ... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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