Lewis (1918-1983), co-pilot Enola Gay, gifted to his son Steven Lewis. Van Kirk, Navigator, Enola Gay Captain Robert A. Lewis," some small tears to the margins, old fold lines.
Van Kirk records the position, time, true course, temperature, altitude, air speed, wind direction, ground speed, distance to destination, comments on weather etc, with the additions in pen by Robert Lewis, principally by filling in the upper page of each sheet, the plane number, type, date, place of departure, mission orders, weather and flight crews, adding sheet numbers and the time landed to the verso of sheets 1 and 2, and at the bottom of the verso of sheet 3 his own statement of attribution, "Hiroshima's / Navigators's Log / "Completed by / Capt Van Kirk (Navigator) / Received by / Capt Lewis Co-Pilot From 509th Hqts-January 46 / 'Attested as true' / Capt Robert A.
Autograph Manuscript, being a true copy of the Navigator's Log for the flight of Enola Gay, on 3 printed oblong USAAF proforma sheets on sepia paper imprinted "Navigators Log," each sheet 255 x 660 mm, the flight August 6th 1945, recording the flight of the Enola Gay from Tinian Island to Hiroshima, on August 6th 1945, to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan, written out in hard and soft HB pencil in the few days after the flight, and submitted to the USAAF for filing as the "Navigators Log of the Enola Gay," including a small number of additions by co-pilot Robert Lewis after receiving this log in January 1946, when the 509th Composite Group (the special atomic bomb dropping wing) had returned to their Headquarters at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico.