When Army Air Force Captain Robert A. Lewis set off toward Hiroshima as copilot of the Enola Gay on Aug. 6, 1945, he began a brief log of the mission, scribbling on the backs of War Department forms. Last week the diary was auctioned off at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries for $37,000 to a rare-manuscript dealer. In it, there was a glimpse, as in a time-lapse film, of the moment when men first used the Bomb against one another.
Lewis was on hand for the auction, and he read some of the diary aloud. It had first been published in 1946but...
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