During WWII he served in the Navy and was stationed on the small island of Tinian. Seaman Second Class Erwin Johns was born in Milford Township in 1925. This was the first incident of a nuclear device being used in warfare. The Enola Gay was the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Johns took hundreds of photos during his time in the Pacific and managed to photograph the Enola Gay before its famous mission. This was the last nuclear weapon ever used in warfare.Įrwin Johns was stationed on the island of Tinian in the days leading up to the dropping of the atomic bombs.
The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Brown County native Erwin Johns was stationed on the island and photographed the plane as well as hundreds of others.īockscar (or Bock’s car) is the plane that dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan. Bockscar was one of many planes to land on the island of Tinian.
