Hiroshima pilot's account auctioned

An account of the Hiroshima bombing by one of the US pilots on the operation in which he describes his horror at the attack was being auctioned today.

Hiroshima pilot's account auctioned

An account of the Hiroshima bombing by one of the US pilots on the operation in which he describes his horror at the attack was being auctioned today.

‘‘My God, what have I done?’’ stunned Captain Robert Lewis wrote in a log book moments after releasing the atomic weapon that killed 100,000 people in the Japanese city on August 6 1945.

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