Reminiscences of George Caron : oral history, 1975.

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Reminiscences of George Caron : oral history, 1975.

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Engineering background; power turret school; B-29 testing; modification incorporation; B-29 gunnery instructor in Kansas; training and atomic bomb run, Hiroshima.

Transcript: 64 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Technical Sergeant George Robert "Bob" Caron (October 31, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was the tail gunner, the only defender of the twelve crewmen, aboard the B-29 Enola Gay during the historic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Facing the rear of the B-29, his vantage point made him the first man to witness the cataclysmic growth of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. Caron was also the only photographer aboard, and took photographs as the mushroom cloud ascended. Of the fou...