Enola Gay map auctioned off at Christie's for $72,000

Enola Gay map auctioned off at Christie's for $72,000

NEW YORK, United States - A highly detailed map once used by the crew aboard Enola Gay (in photo), which dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima in the closing days of World War II, was sold for $72,000 at Christie's auction house in New York on Nov. 15. The map, printed on weave cloth for durability, was carried on the flight by co-pilot Robert A. Lewis, who had carefully drawn arrows of the B-29's flight path to Hiroshima to drop the nuclear device and the return journey.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001111967
  • Registered date
  • 2005/11/16 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2005 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1228 pixel
  • Resolution
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  • Deployment size
  • 1.08(MB)*
  • Special instruction

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