Collection of 36 items signed by one or more crew members of the Enola Gay or Bockscar, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The collection also includes autographs from other mission-related figures and crew members from participating aircraft Necessary Evil, The Great Artiste, and Straight Flush.
Signers include: Bockscar crew (SP), Straight Flush crew (SP), Paul Tibbets (5: TLS, check, signature, two SPs), Theodore ‘Dutch’ Van Kirk (2: souvenir sheet and sketch), Tibbets, Van Kirk, and Thomas Ferebee (SP), Charles W. Sweeney (2: SP and signature), Jacob Beser (10: eight calling cards and two SPs), Fred Olivi (8: seven SPs and an ALS), Tibbets and George R. Caron (SP), Tibbets, Sweeney, and George Marquardt (2 SPs), Leonard A. Godfrey (typed statement), Francis D. Thornhill (FDC), and Lawrence H. Johnston (SP). In overall fine condition, with wear to two of the Olivi photos.
