Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target, and stroyed most of the cy. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Pl Warfield Tibbets, Jr.
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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. ” 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.
ENOLA GAY
Tibbets, Jr., mand of the Superfortrs Enola Gay, dropped a highly enriched uranium, explosn-type, "gun-fired, " atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Enola Gay flew as the advance weather rennaissance aircraft that day.
He named the B-29 that he flew on 6 Augt Enola Gay after his mother. Enola Gay is a mol B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292. The airplane's last flight end on December 2 when the Enola Gay touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
WATCH U.S. B-29 SUPERFORTRS ENOLA GAY CIMATE HIROSHIMA WH A NUCLEAR BOMB THE PACIFIC WAR
The staff at Garber began workg to prerve and rtore Enola Gay December 1984. B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay cimate Hiroshima wh a nuclear bomb the Pacific War.
The B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay took off om the Mariana Islands on Augt 6, 1945, bound for Hiroshima, Japan, where, by droppg an atomic bomb, herald a new and terrible ncept of warfare. Why is the B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay among the artifacts displayed at the Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F. The Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that 1945 was ed to drop the first atomic weapon ed bat on Hiroshima, Japan, is currently one among 104 aircraft exhibed the center's aviatn hangar.