which were laying in a light breeze
all in about the same direction
to the eastard - @ 8.35 we put
on all our apparatus including the
life raft - @ 8.55 we hung on our
dark glasses & put them on @ 8.57-
he word came at 9 on the dot that
the bomb was away - It seemed to me
to take about 30 sec. before a small
flash appeared across the dark glasses -
Then in about another 30 sec. we felt
a small tremor in the plane - then
off came the glasses- a white cloud
with a beautiful silver white mushroom
top arose on a small stem at first
that slowly expanded into 3
mushrooms with stems growing larger
& more bulbous - I do not think
it arose over 20,000 ft. before the