Joe Stiborik, a member of the Enola Gay’s crew, later recalled that everyone aboard remained almost completely silent during the long flight home. “I was dumbfounded,” he said. “It was just too much to express in words, I guess. We were all in a kind of state of shock. I think the foremost thing in all our minds was that this thing was going to bring an end to the war, and we tried to look at it that way.”
