![]() Check has been completely made out and signed by General Tibbets in blue ink and is in FINE condition. ![]() The check has been personally signed THREE times. Bank check dated 14 September 1995 from Bank One for $600.00 and made out to Paul W. Fine Condition The photographs shown in the listing are for display purposes only and not included in the sale. It melted granite and vaporized people leaving only their shadows on the few remaining buildings left standing in the city after the blast. The firebomb that erupted was equivalent of thirteen thousand tons of TNT and thousands of degrees hotter than the surface of the sun. At 31,600 feet, with a ground speed of 328 mph, a bomb weighing 9,700 pounds, containing 137.5 pounds of Uranium 235 was released. The B-29 Superfortress lifted off Tinian Island at 2:45AM for the six and one half hour flight to Hiroshima. Tibbets, of the 509th Bomber Group and pilot of the Enola Gay, received his orders and in the early morning hours roared down a runway bound for Hiroshima. Bank check dated 20 April 1992 from Bank One for $124.07 made out to SHELL OIL CO.
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