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File:The Strategic Air Offensive 1939-1945 - IWM HU 44878.jpg

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English: Rocket Weapons and the Atomic Bomb: The B-29 'Enola Gay' which dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and her pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.
Date circa 1945
date QS:P,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source
Image of the exterior main entrance to the Imperial War Museum in London. This photograph HU 44878 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.
Author AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION

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Paul Tibbets with the B-29 'Enola Gay'

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