Just how many Japs did we kill? 'I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this. 'I am certain the entire crew felt this experience was more than anyone human had ever thought possible,' Lewis wrote in the log. Lewis wrote the original log on Augas he flew to and from Hiroshima, disguised as a letter to 'Mom and Dad' because as there was to be no official account of the top-secret mission, Bonhams said. Robert Lewis, American co-pilot of the B-29 bomber, made the copy in 1945 at the request of the then-science editor at The New York Times, and it includes a pencil sketch of the mushroom cloud, Bonhams auction house said.
A copy of a deeply moving pilot's log, written during the top-secret Enola Gay mission that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, was auctioned in New York on Wednesday for $50,000.
