The War
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Staff Sargeant George Caron.
Damage
Staff Sergeant George Caron, the tail gunner for the B-29 Bomber, says what he saw: "The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside. . . . It looked like lava or molasses covering a whole city. . . .". Captain Robert Lewis, the co-pilot of the B-29 Bomber, described what he saw, "Where we had seen a clear city two minutes before, we could no longer see the city. We could see smoke and fires creeping up the sides of the mountains." The cloud was estimated to have reached about a height of 40,000 feet or more.The destruction from the dropping of the bomb wiped out about 90% of the city of Hiroshima. The bomb instantly killed approximately 80,000 people, and later killed thousands of citizens from radiation exposure. About 70,000 people that did not die from the radiation had horrible mutations from it, or were severely burned from the explosion.(http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima.htm)
Staff Sergeant George Caron, the tail gunner for the B-29 Bomber, says what he saw: "The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside. . . . It looked like lava or molasses covering a whole city. . . .". Captain Robert Lewis, the co-pilot of the B-29 Bomber, described what he saw, "Where we had seen a clear city two minutes before, we could no longer see the city. We could see smoke and fires creeping up the sides of the mountains." The cloud was estimated to have reached about a height of 40,000 feet or more.The destruction from the dropping of the bomb wiped out about 90% of the city of Hiroshima. The bomb instantly killed approximately 80,000 people, and later killed thousands of citizens from radiation exposure. About 70,000 people that did not die from the radiation had horrible mutations from it, or were severely burned from the explosion.(http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima.htm)