Atomic bomber’s secret logbook made headlines

Sold at $440,000 (£371,000), the most expensive lot in a three-day auction at Heritage (25% buyer’s premium) was a logbook kept on the B29 Superfortress bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.

That of the co-pilot, Captain Robert A Lewis, this US War Deptment issue notebook contains the onl…

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