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69 Years Later: Commemorating the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Drop

Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr., the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima waves from the cockpit before takeoff. (Getty)

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August 6 is the 69-year anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Remember with these pictures of the aftermath.