75 Years Ago: The Flight of the Enola Gay | Natnal Air and Space Mm

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY LOGBOOK RERDG FIRST A-BOMB SELLS FOR OVER $500K AT CTN
• HIROSHIMA LOG OF THE ENOLA GAY
• LOGBOOK REVEALG 'ENOLA GAY' PILOT'S WORDS AFTER ATOM BOMB DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA SELLS FOR £450,000
• ENOLA GAY -PILOT’S FLIGHT LOGS, HIROSHIMA PLANS FOR SALE
• ENOLA GAY LOGBOOK RERDG FIRST A-BOMB SELLS FOR OVER $500K AT CTN
• COPY OF 'ENOLA GAY' PILOT'S LOG FETCH $50,000 AT CTN
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY -PILOT'S FLIGHT LOGS, HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB N PLANS UP FOR CTN NYC
• ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• ENOLA GAY -PILOT'S FLIGHT LOGS, HIROSHIMA PLANS, WWII MISSN NOT HEAD TO CTN
• ENOLA GAY: PILOT’S-EYE VIEW
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• ENOLA GAY -PILOT'S FLIGHT LOGS, HIROSHIMA PLANS FOR SALE
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

ENOLA GAY LOGBOOK RERDG FIRST A-BOMB SELLS FOR OVER $500K AT CTN

The Enola Gay flight log that rerd the world’s first atomic bombg sold at ctn for $543, 000 on Saturday. The sole -flight documentatn of the Amerin bombg of Hiroshima was ma by the Enola Gay’s -pilot Capt.

The strike plane rryg the Ltle Boy Atomic Bomb is Enola Gay, which is piloted by Col. His job was to rerd the flight path of Enola Gay this log, which was provid to the Atomic Herage Foundatn by Clay Perks.

HIROSHIMA LOG OF THE ENOLA GAY

This document begs on 2:55am when Enola Gay tak off and ends on 2:58pm when they land back at the base Tian Island.

The bomb, named Ltle Boy, was dropped by the crew of the B-29 bomber named Enola Gay and was the first atomic weapon ed warfare after succsful tts rried out by the US.

LOGBOOK REVEALG 'ENOLA GAY' PILOT'S WORDS AFTER ATOM BOMB DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA SELLS FOR £450,000

The log book was wrten by Capta Robert Lewis, the -pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb The vastatg attack on the cy Augt 1945 ed the aths of up to 130, 000 Japane men, women and children The bomb, named Ltle Boy, was dropped by the crew (pictured) of the B-29 bomber named Enola Gay and was the first atomic weapon ed warfare after succsful tts rried out by the US Enola Gay is seen landg after s famo missn to drop a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Augt 1945Although the crew had been aware that they were droppg an atomic bomb, none of them had any ia of the level of ath and stctn that would team that Capta Lewis was part of was mand by lead pilot Pl Tibbets. When the technology was ready, the US opted to e on Japan after the untry's lears refed to surrenr followg Nazi Germany's feat May crew of Enola Gay rried out their missn to bomb Hiroshima Augt 6.

ENOLA GAY -PILOT’S FLIGHT LOGS, HIROSHIMA PLANS FOR SALE

(AP) — Of the 12 men who flew aboard the Enola Gay the day the U.

The pre-sale timate for the flight logs is $150, 000 to $200,, a 27-year-old pilot om Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, logged a total of 36 flights aboard the Enola Gay, cludg the Aug. The younger Lewis said his father rerd tails of every flight he took, cludg the three dozen he ma aboard the Enola Gay. “The Enola Gay was the most signifint aircraft of World War Two, ” said Larry Starr, llectns manager at the Amerin Airpower Mm Farmgdale, New York.

Pl Tibbets was also the pilot of the Enola Gay, relegatg the lower-ranked Lewis to -pilot. But Tibbets only flew the Enola Gay a uple of tim, while Lewis had piloted the aircraft 16 tim durg tt flights leadg up to the Hiroshima missn. “People don’t realize how many tim he flew aboard the Enola Gay, ” Steven Lewis said.

ENOLA GAY LOGBOOK RERDG FIRST A-BOMB SELLS FOR OVER $500K AT CTN

Enola Gay navigator Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the last survivg crew member, died Geia other Lewis ems for ctn clu personal photographs om the war and his hand-drawn diagram of the Hiroshima bombg n showg the bomb blast’s expected shock wave range and the evasive flight path the Enola’s Gay would take after tonatn. The Enola Gay flight log that rerd the world’s first atomic bombg sold at ctn for $543, 000 on Saturday.

COPY OF 'ENOLA GAY' PILOT'S LOG FETCH $50,000 AT CTN

A photo of the Enola Gay (L) and the flight logs of WWII pilot Capta Robert Lewis are displayed at Bonhams durg a media preview on April 24, 2015 New YorkA py of a eply movg pilot's log, wrten durg the top-secret Enola Gay missn that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, was ctned New York on Wednday for $50, 000. The sgle sheet of graph paper shows a pencil and k drawg of the Enola Gay approachg Hiroshima and on droppg the bomb, turng 150 gre to the right to avoid the shock wav of the explosn. After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make. While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan. In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949.

ENOLA GAY -PILOT'S FLIGHT LOGS, HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB N PLANS UP FOR CTN NYC

But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas.

The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.

ENOLA GAY

Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name. – Of the 12 men who flew aboard the Enola Gay the day the U.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

"The Enola Gay was the most signifint aircraft of World War Two, " said Larry Starr, llectns manager at the Amerin Airpower Mm Farmgdale, New York.

"People don't realize how many tim he flew aboard the Enola Gay, " Steven Lewis days after the Hiroshima bombg, another U. Enola Gay navigator Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, the last survivg crew member, died Geia other Lewis ems for ctn clu personal photographs om the war and his hand-drawn diagram of the Hiroshima bombg n showg the bomb blast's expected shock wave range and the evasive flight path the Enola's Gay would take after tonatn. Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target.

HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB

” The Enola Gay—Tibbets had a matenance man pat that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff—was acpanied by var other plan.

Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross. Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan. Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.

In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F. Tibbets Jr., 30, had handpicked the airplane on the assembly le Nebraska three months before and had jt had his mother’s name, “Enola Gay, ” pated black letters on the the plane mbled down the airstrip at over 100 mph, he had his lucky cigarette se wh him one pocket, and a box ntag 12 cyani psul Aug. Two other B-29s, the “Great Artiste” and “Necsary Evil, ” were supposed to go along to take pictur and rerd “Enola Gay” was the “strike ship.

ENOLA GAY -PILOT'S FLIGHT LOGS, HIROSHIMA PLANS, WWII MISSN NOT HEAD TO CTN

”Fifteen hundred to the north-northwt, unr a wang crcent moon, lay a 400-year-old Japane cy most Amerins probably had never heard of but whose name was about to be etched to the pag of was an important enemy ary se wh a wartime populatn about 280, 000, acrdg to the historians Gordon Thomas and Max half of them were about to be cerated, cshed, and irradiated by the c atomic weapon named “Ltle Boy” that the Enola Gay of thoands more would die the same way at Nagasaki a few days later, and the world would subsequently be hearg about megatons, mutual assured stctn, proliferatn, nuclear wter, meltdowns and dirty would be the start of a ightful era of weapons that uld fy ntrol and menace as “Dimpl Eight Two” picked up speed that morng, s missn was born of s time: liver a blow that the Uned Stat hoped might fally end the global butchery of World War II.

)This week, memoratns are schled across the untry, wh socially distanced ndlelight vigils and the tollg of bells, and bee of the vid-19, ceremoni and remembranc have moved Enola Gay, the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is seen on display July 29, 2020, at the Steven F. (Matt McCla/The Washgton Post)One of the Enola Gay’s four eng.

If this ighteng new weapon worked, the thkg went, would shorten the war, albe at a dreadful st human first the Enola Gay had to get off the ground. William Parsons, who flew on the missn as the bomb bee of that risk, the 10-foot-long “Ltle Boy” had not yet been was a “gun-type” bomb, one which an explosive charge would fire a “subcril” piece of uranium 235 down a six-foot-long “gun” barrel to a send subcril piece of uranium, acrdg to Thomas and created cril mass and the explosive nuclear cha reactn that would lay waste to four cloth bags of explosive and the tonator would not be serted until the plane was the Enola Gay was now dog 180 mph but was nng out of ground.

ENOLA GAY: PILOT’S-EYE VIEW

(Natnal Archiv)The weapon is hoisted to the bomb bay of the B-29 dubbed “Enola Gay” Augt 1945 on Tian Island the Northern Mariana Islands. (Natnal Archiv)‘A fiery red re’Thirty-one thoand feet above, the Enola Gay’s bombardier, Maj. So had an ternal radar system that tected the ground, tripped the tonator at that altu, and iated the tonatn bomb traveled for six and explod jt short of the Enola Gay, meanwhile, lurched upward on sheddg the weight of the bomb and executed a hairp turn to pe the expected shock wave of the first, the crew saw and felt nothg.

(AP)‘Brighter than the sun’As the Enola Gay and s two rt plan head back Tian, a young scientist named Luis W. On Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the cy of Hiroshima.

"Colonel Ferebee died Florida 2000, at the age of Air Force radar specialist Jab Ber was the only man who served on both the Enola Gay the Hiroshima bombg missn and the Bock's Car three days later when s crew bombed Nagasaki. "Stiborik died of a heart attack 1984 at age Jeppson was only 23 years old when he was assigned to acpany the atomic bomb on the Enola Gay. Richard Nelson was the youngt of the Enola Gay crew.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

"Nelson died om emphysema 2003 at age Gay tail gunner Bob Caron wrote a book about the missn lled Fire of a Thoand Suns. He was 75 years Duzenbury kept tabs on the Enola Gay's eng and other systems while others tend the bomb and the missn self. "Duzenbury died 1992 at age Shumard assisted flight engeer Wyatt Duzenbury keepg the Enola Gay nng.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

He armed the first atomic bomb while the Enola Gay was airborne. He was upset that manr Pl Tibbets had named his plane the Enola Gay. On Augt 6, 1945, the crew of a modified Boeg B-29 Superfortrs named Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ed warfare, lled “Ltle Boy, ” on the cy of Hiroshima, Japan.

ENOLA GAY -PILOT'S FLIGHT LOGS, HIROSHIMA PLANS FOR SALE

As a new and adly weapon, an atomic bomber, Enola Gay facilated a turng pot human history as hered the dawn of the Atomic Age and the threat of nuclear war. Tibbets and his crew took off om Tian  Enola Gay at 2:45 am on Augt 6, 1945.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

Upon visual lotn of Hiroshima, Tom Ferebee aimed for the cy center and Enola Gay dropped the “Ltle Boy” bomb om 31, 000 feet at 9:15 am.

After “Ltle Boy” left the forward bomb bay, Enola Gay lurched upward, and Tibbets iated a high angle evasive manver to get as far away om Hiroshima as possible. ” Enola Gay land back at Tian 12 hours later at approximately 3 pm. Enola Gay tail gunner Bob Caron took this picture of the cloud of smoke billowg 20, 000 feet above Hiroshima after the explosn of the Ltle Boy atomic bomb on Augt 6, 1945.