the day appointed for the first meeting of the Federal Congress
with the Jefferson stamp upgraded to a 50c denomination
according to the National Portrait Gallery
including the annual permanent appropriation of $700
political history on a single page
Book on the Enola Gay with a hand-drawn diagram signed by the navigator, Dutch Van Kirk Victory or Death the day appointed for theUpdate June 9: This is sold Enola Gay by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts. Published by Stein and Day, 1977. 327 pages While the book was warmly reviewed, the reason I chose it, and this copy in particular, is because on the inside first page (what's known as the "front free endpaper"), the plane's navigator, Theodore Jerome Dutch Van Kirk, drew and annotated a diagram of the Enola Gays air escape plan following the bombing, including the shock