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Robert Alvin Lewis (October 18, 1917 – June 18, 1983) was a United States Army Air Forces officer serving in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. He was the co-pilot and aircraft commander [2] of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Jun 20, 1983 · Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died of a heart attack Saturday in Riverside Hospital in Newport News, Va.
Aug 5, 2015 · Robert A. Lewis was a pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. He wrote in his log: "Just how many did we kill? My God, what have we done?"
Robert A. Lewis served as a captain in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the 509th Composite Group. He trained in Wendover, Utah before leaving for Tinian Island. Lewis was hand selected by Colonel Paul Tibbets to serve as captain of the Enola Gay for his calm demeanor and quick reflexes…
Aug 6, 2020 · The countdown had begun for Capt. Robert A. Lewis, Sgt. Melvin H. Bierman and the 67 other Americans who would soon be taking off on a mission to Hiroshima that only a few of them fully...
- Richard Cowen
- Staff Writer
In this 1962 radio interview, Robert Lewis, Richard Nelson, Charles Sweeney, and Abe Spitzer discuss their experience as members of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing missions. Lewis was a captain in the 509th Composite Group and was the co-pilot of the Enola Gay on the day of the Hiroshima mission. Nelson was the radio operator of the Enola ...
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Sep 5, 2023 · A survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, also agreed to participate in an episode, where he was introduced to Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay.
