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Advice: bomb primary target.” An hour later, at 8.15 a.m.

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The meaning of the code: “Cloud cover less than three-tenths all altitudes. “Y-3, Q-3, B-2, C-1” is the code that Claude Eatherly, pilot of the B-29 ‘Straight Flush’, sent to pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets of the B-29 ‘Enola Gay’ while flying over Hiroshima in the morning of 6 August 1945.

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