When Lewis saw the huge mushroom cloud, he uttered the famous remark 'My God, what have we done?'
The atomic bombing of the Japanese city killed 140,000 people by December 1945. The single sheet of graph paper shows a pencil and ink drawing of the Enola Gay approaching Hiroshima and on dropping the bomb, turning 150 degrees to the right to avoid the shock waves of the explosion. The same World War II memorabilia auction also sold Lewis's hand-drawn plan for dropping the bomb for $37,500, Bonhams said. The original was sold at auction for $391,000 in 2002 by Christie's. 'I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this.
