flight officer insignia a US Army Air Force aviation cadet pin and a theatre-made US Army Air Force patch. two US Army Air Force Navigator Wings eight lieutenant’s bars two U.S. Gackenbach a photograph of an aged Gackenbach, dated 11/11/01 AAF cloth chart No. photograph of a crew of ten, with Gackenbach at center, inscribed Crew B-10, Dec.
Gackenbach/ Navigator 6 Aug ‘45/ Hiroshima Photo plane a 3.5 x 5 in. photograph of Necessary Evil, signed R.E. Gackenbach, Navigator, with inscription to Richard DeRosa a 5 x 7 in. photograph of Gackenbach in front of the front landing gear of Necessary Evil, Signed Russell E. Gackenbach, the last surviving crew member of the three strike planes that carried out the first wartime use of an atomic bomb in human history, including the only known non-government photograph of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima which resides in private hands, 2.5 x 3.5 in., inscribed on verso Hiroshima 6 Aug and signed Taken by Russell Gackenbach the Agfa PB 20 Viking camera with which it was taken a note signed by Gackenbach attesting that the camera was the one used on Necessary Evil on Aug.
