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Atomic cloud over Hiroshima

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Atomic cloud over Hiroshima — archival photograph
At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column. Six planes of the 509th Composite Group, participated in this mission; one to carry the bomb Enola Gay , one to take scientific measurements of the blast The Great Artiste , the third to take phot

The year

1945
Photographer
George R. Caron
Date
1945
Licence
Public domain
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atomic_cloud_over_Hiroshima.jpg
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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