Binoculars used in Enola Gay after A-bombing given to museum

Binoculars used in Enola Gay after A-bombing given to museum

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A woman shows a pair of binoculars believed to have been used by an Enola Gay crew member to evaluate the devastation of the 1945 first atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on Aug. 2. Yae Araki, who had bought the binoculars for $13,200 at Christie's auction in New York in December 1990, donated them to the museum.

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