ROUEN TO HIROSHIMA
Thursday 6 August at 20.30
On 6 August 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay, piloted by Paul Tibbets, dropped the first atomic bomb used in combat over Hiroshima, Japan, bringing the Second World War to an end. But the story began three years earlier – 17 August 1942, in French skies over Rouen – when the same pilot led the first daylight bombing mission again
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