Exhibg the Enola Gay

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At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, ntroversy surround the ntext which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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EXHIBG 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 national air and space museum *

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.

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