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George R. Caron
United States Army Air Forces soldier
Technical Sergeant George Robert Caron (October 31, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was the tail gunner, the only defender of the twelve crewmen, aboard the B-29Enola Gay during the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
Facing the rear of the B-29, his vantage point made him the first airborne person to witness the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima.
Caron was also the only photographer aboard, and took photographs as the mushroom cloud rose.
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Of the four 509th Composite Group aircraft assigned to the Hiroshima bombing, Caron's camera and two others captured the explosion on film. Immediately before the mission, the 509th's photography officer, Lieutenant Jerome Ossip, asked then Staff Sergeant Caron to carry a handheld Fairchild K-20 camera.
After the mission, Ossip developed photos from all the aircraft, but found that the fixed cameras failed to record anything. Film from another handheld was mishandled in dev