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Old Apr 12, 2025 | 4:28 pm
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Originally Posted by ATOBTTR
the Enola Gay flew over 1,500 miles from Tinian to Hiroshima without any of the sophisticated navigation equipment or flight management computers we have today and yet was just 17 seconds off the specific "time on target" for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
They also carried a navigator.
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