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7090 - Enola Gay: Dutch Van Kirk Signed Newspaper: "Secret Atom Bombs to Wipe Out Japan"
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Enola Gay: Dutch Van Kirk Signed Newspaper: "Secret Atom Bombs to Wipe Out Japan" Front section of The Pittsburgh Press from August 6, 1945, 14 pages, 16 x 23.5, signed in black felt tip, "Dutch Van Kirk, Navigator—Enola Gay, Hiroshima, 6 Aug. 1945." The newspaper carries the bold banner headline: "Secret Atom Bombs to Wipe Out Japan: Quit or Die, Truman Warns." The main column begins: "The United States has unleashed against Japan the terror of an atomic bomb 2000 times more powerful than the biggest block-busters ever used in warfare." Additional reporting covers the secret building of the atomic bomb, the possibilities of atomic energy, and Truman's disclosure of the "Secret Atomic Bomb." In very good condition, with central vertical and horizontal folds, some toning and staining, and fraying to edges.
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