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Would You Launch a Bid for This ‘Atomic Bomb’ Being Auctioned Off?
The 1945 training model of the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb, restored to museum quality, starts bidding at $25,000 in a Dallas auction closing December 12.
- Heritage Auctions, Dallas-based auction house, is offering an original 1945 training model of Little Boy with a starting bid of $25,000, according to Dean Murray.
- Produced for the U.S. Army Air Forces, the model is a non-functional but dimensionally accurate mock-up meant for training crews on aircraft like the B-29 Superfortress.
- Conservators restored the model to museum-grade standards and returned it to a historically correct black-and-white colour scheme, while a photograph shows S. Dike examining the Little Boy unit in the Enola Gay's bomb bay supporting provenance.
- Historically, Little Boy was the first nuclear weapon used in war, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and its use hastened the end of World War II.
- Framing the listing as a 'non-functional but dimensionally accurate mock-up' has Heritage Auctions, drawing public attention to the sale of the 1945 Little Boy training model.
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