Lot 620

Jacob Beser SIGNATURE On Preprinted Atomic Bomb Mission Card 2 Inch high by 3 1/2 Inch Wide Card Stock WWII Navigator Of The "Enola Gay" & Crew-member Of "Bockscar" 1st & 2nd Atomic Bomb Planes

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Jacob Beser SIGNATURE On Preprinted Atomic Bomb Mission Card 2 Inch high by 3 1/2 Inch Wide Card Stock WWII Navigator Of The "Enola Gay" & Crew-member Of "Bockscar" 1st & 2nd Atomic Bomb Planes

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by The Book Barn
August 13, 2026 5:00 PM EDT
Timed Auction
353 Indian Village Road
Shapliegh, ME, US 07076

SIGNATURE On Preprinted Atomic Bomb Mission Card 2 Inch high by 3 1/2 Inch Wide Card Stock WWII Navigator Of The Enola Gay 1st Atomic Bomb Plane, Jacob Beser. Signature on preprinted card: "20TH AIR FORCE EMBLEM/JACOB BESER (INK SIGNATURE)/JACOB BESER/HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI/AUGUST, 1945."

JACOB BESER (1921-1992) was a lieutenant in the US Army Air Force who served during WWII. Beser was the radar specialist aboard the "Enola Gay" on August 6, 1945, when it dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb, the plutonium implosion bomb that became the second and last atomic bomb used in combat. Beser was the only crew member to accompany both atomic bomb missions and besides the commanding officers/pilots, had a scientific understanding of the new weapons' potential and destructiveness, as a result of his earlier high school and university education. on Hiroshima. Beser was the only person to have served as a strike crew member of both of the 1945 atomic bomb missions.

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