World War Two Pacific 1945

From left, standing, the crew of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay, Lt Col John Porter, ground maintenance officer, Major Theodore J (Dutch) VanKirk, navigator; Major Thomas W Ferebee, bombadier, Col Paul W Tibbets, 509th Group commanding officer and pilot, Capt Robert A Lewis, co-pilot, and Lt Jacob Beser, radar countermeasure officer, Front row, from left, Sgt Joseph S Stiborik, radar operator; S/Sgt George R Caron, tail gunner; Pfc Richard H Nelson, radio operator, Sgt Robert H Shumard, assistant engineer and S/Sgt Wyatt E Duzenbury, flight engineer, pose for a photograph before taking off for the first atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 at the Tanang seaplane base in the Mariana Islands, Western North Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).