It was a beautiful, sunlit day in the 350-year-old city.Īt 8.07am Van Kirk sighted Hiroshima. At 7.30am Japanese time, the B29 Straight Flush reported that conditions over Hiroshima, the US army air force's preferred target, were excellent. Three weather planes had flown ahead to assess cloud cover. The B29 had been assigned, depending on the weather, to drop the world's first atomic bomb on either Kokura, Nagasaki or Hiroshima.
