Beschreibung:

Baldasaro, Sgt. Pasquale. Radio operator USAAF B-29 "Straight Flush". Collection of flight reports and signed photographs relating to the Straight Flush, and its advance reconnaissance flight over the Hiroshima target on August 6th 1945. Flight Records dated June 1944 - October 1945. Photographs taken from the colored slides taken by Armament officer, Jack Wright at Tinian Airbase, August 1945. A fine collection of ephemera relating to the USAAF Bomber B-29, "Straight Flush", the reconnaissance plane for the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, comprising; 1. The Original "Individual Flight Records" for Pasquale Baldasaro, the radio operator for the Straight Flush, the advance plane for the Hiroshima Bombing Mission. 4to. 17 typed proforma sheets listing all 98 flights of his career, and including his flights over Japan on August 6th (as the advance plane), 8th and 10th. 2. A 8 x 10 inch reproduction black and white photograph of Pasquale with his crew at Wendover Field, Utah, with 6 signatures added at a reunion of the 509th Composite Group in the 1990s. Unframed. 3. A 8 x 10 inch reproduction from a kodachrome slide of the Nose decoration of the Straight Flush, signed at a 509th Composite Group reunion in the late 1990s, by the co-pilot Wetherley with a note to the Enola Gay "2/10 Cloud Cover Bomb Primary". Unframed. 4. A 8 x 10 inch color reproduction of the nose art of the Straight Flush, taken from a Kodachrome slide taken by Jack Wright on Tinian. The image autographed by five members of the flight crew, and 3 of the maintenance engineers, at a reunion of the 509th Composite Group. Unframed. Provenance: Robert Krauss, Official Historian for the 509th Composite Group.