What Happened to the Enola Gay After Hiroshima? | Time

Contents:

• EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ¿QUé EL ENOLA GAY?
• ENOLA GAY: EL TERROR NDIDO BAJO DOS SIMPL NOMBR
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• ENOLA GAY (TV)

EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

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. Tman was rmed of the velopment while attendg the Potsdam Conference, and he turn told Soviet lear Joseph Stal that the Uned Stat had “a new weapon of unual stctive force.” On July 26 the Allied lears lled for Japan to unndnally surrenr or face “prompt and utter stctn.” After Japan ignored the mand, the cisn was ma to bomb Hiroshima.At approximately 2:45 am on Augt 6, 1945, Tibbets—who was now a full lonel—and a crew of 11 took off om Tian island rryg a uranium bomb that was known as “Ltle Boy.” 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, 1945.The Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.

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

In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F.

¿QUé EL ENOLA GAY?

Pero aquella noche l 6 agosto 1945, hace 59 a�os, Lewis pilotaba su primera misi�n bate a los mandos l Enola Gay, un bombarro ronel Pl Tibbets era el andante la misi�n. Los 12 miembros la tripulaci�n l Enola Gay, tras un a�o ensayando el lanzamiento la bomba, volaron en su B-29 mbo al Pac�fi, a la isla Tian. S su nocimiento, Tibbets orn� que ptaran el nombre su madre, Enola Gay, sobre el Lewis lo v, tall�.

Falmente, el Enola Gay se elev� lentamente hacia el cielo nocturno. 15, las puertas l partimento bombas l Enola Gay se abrieron y la primera bomba at�mi se libera l anclaje�.

Cuando el Enola Gay regr� a la base y Tibbets ley� lo que su piloto hab�a cro, el Viejo Toro le dijo que lo mbiara por algo m�s apropiado, y acto seguido entreg� las p�ldoras cianuro al oficial m�di en tierra. Thomas el tor l libro �Enola Gay: Missn to Hiroshima� documental para la BBC obtuvo un Prem Emmy. AEROPUERTOEl meo l Enola Gay.

ENOLA GAY: EL TERROR NDIDO BAJO DOS SIMPL NOMBR

Many veterans had advoted for the display of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs ed to drop the bombs, as a celebratn of Amerin triumph over Japan, but there were already ncerns that the Smhsonian was creatg a polilly rrect, revisnist terpretatn of the events. Harw rigned on May 2, 1995, jt days before he was schled to ttify Senate June 28, 1995, an exhibn, simply tled "Enola Gay, " opened at the Natnal Air and Space Mm. Unlike the ncelled exhibn, "Enola Gay" ntaed no terpretatn, no graphic imag, and no melted objects.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

Only the felage was on display, acpanied by basic facts and rmatn about the plane's entire Enola Gay bomber is currently on display the "World War II Aviatn" exhibn at the Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.

Related RourcCollectns related to the Enola Gay, Smhsonian Instutn ArchivThe Enola Gay: A Natn's, and a Mm's, Dilemma, Edorial by Mart Harw, The Washgton Post, Augt 7, 1994Special Report: The Smhsonian and the Enola Gay, Air Force Associatn, March 15, 1994Smhsonian Cancels Exhib on Atomic Bomb, The Baltimore Sun, January 31, 1995Recent Acquisn - Rerds om Mart Harw, Director, NASM, 1986-1995, The Bigger Picture, Smhsonian Instutn Archiv. After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.

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 (TV)

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. 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.