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The Orlando Sentinel, Saturday, December 8, 1990 A-21 nr mm Enola Gay flight log fails to sell Navigator on B-29 that dropped atomic bomb says he has the original 500 DM STOCK SAVE UP 70 50 OFF ASSOCIATED PRESS America's Best Selling Recliners by LANE LA-Z-B0Y BURNS FREE SWIVEL SAVE $209 SAVE $150 iS pilot. Lewis hoped to use the sale proceeds for her retirement, Coover said. The log records basic flight information, such as position, altitude, air speed, and compass direction, on three yellow, oblong sheets. The 9:15 a.m. entry of the document chronicling the 12-hour round-trip mission from the U.S.

base in the Marianas Islands to Hiroshima simply says, "Bomb away." The bombing of the Japanese city, which marked the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare, left an estimated 130,000 casualties. On Friday, The New York Times quoted Van Kirk as saying, "I am quite confident that the log which I have in my possession is the one I kept on the airplane." Van Kirk, who lives near San Francisco, plans to donate his log to an American institution, Coover said. Another item generating interest at Friday's auction was a letter written by Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen. The University of Vermont hoped to buy the manuscript to keep it in the state. The 1787 letter discussed a possible trade agreement between independent Vermont and Canada.

The university raised about $15,000 from individual collectors and small foundations to buy the letter, which was valued at $15,000 to $20,000. "It would be a terrible shame if the letter ends up outside Vermont," J. Kevin Graffagnino, curator of the university's Vermont collection, has said. "It belongs in Vermont." BiiiTfszsyjs SAVE $200 $299" NEW YORK A log chronicling the B-29 mission that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima did not sell at auction Friday after Christie's announced it could not guarantee it was the original record kept by the navigator. Auctioneer Stephen Massey opened bidding at $40,000.

No bids were offered, and Massey did not go lower. Before the doubts about the authenticity, the auction house had estimated the log would sell for $100,000 to $150,000. Christie's officials said it was a coincidence that the document was offered on Pearl Harbor Day. The navigator, Theodore J. Van Kirk, told Christie's auction house last week that he still has the log he wrote on the mission, said Chris Coover, a manuscript specialist at Christie's.

Christie's officials spent a week investigating the claim, then decided to back away from the catalog description of the log put up for auction. The log had been described as "the original manuscript navigator's log of the B-29 bomber the Enola Gay." Christie's considered withdrawing the log from the sale, but "we have confidence" that the log is authentic, Coover said. Auction house officials said in a statement released late Thursday that they still believed the log was "an authentic record made contemporaneously with the mission." Christie's put the log on the block for Eileen Lewis, widow of Capt. Robert A. Lewis, Enola Gay's co Bring in Color Sample of your Room Decor (arm cover, cushion, carpet, etc.) FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED GUARANTEED LOWEST PRICES IMMEDIATE DELIVERY MiMMM WPJE HOURS: M-S: 9-6 Sun.

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