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• ON THIS DATE AUGT 6,1945- THE “ENOLA GAY” MAK HISTORY
• HIROSHIMASEP 21, 2017 IN APRIL-JULY 1945 JAPANE FORC FLICTED ALLIED SUALTI TOTALG NEARLY HALF THOSE SUFFERED THREE FULL YEARS OF WAR THE PACIFIC.  IN LATE JULY, JAPAN’S ARIST ERNMENT REJECTED THE POTSDAM DECLARATN MANDG UNNDNAL SURRENR OR TOTAL STCTN. FOR THE NEW U.S. PRINT HARRY S. TMAN, THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN APPEARED EVER MORE ADLY WHEN FACED WH FEAT.GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, ALONG WH GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER, SOME MANHATTAN PROJECT SCIENTISTS AND SENR U.S. ARY MANRS REMEND A NTUATN OF NVENTNAL BOMBG FOLLOWED BY A MASSIVE VASN OF MALAND JAPAN. INFORMED THAT THE VASN WOULD ST UP TO A LN U.S. CASUALTI, PRINT TMAN OPTED TO E THE ATOMIC BOMB, HOPG TO NCLU THE WAR SWIFTLY.HIROSHIMA, A MANUFACTURG CENTER OF SOME 350,000 PEOPLE LOTED ABOUT 500 WT OF TOKYO, WAS SELECTED AS THE FIRST TARGET.HIROSHIMA BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMBGON TIAN ISLAND, A ~ 9,000-POUND URANIUM-235 BOMB WAS LOAD ABOARD A MODIFIED B-29 BOMBER NAMED ENOLA GAY (NAMED AFTER THE MOTHER OF S PILOT, USAAF COLONEL PL TIBBETS.AT 08:45 THE MORNG ON AUGT 6, 1945, THE ENOLA GAY DROPPED “LTLE BOY,” THE WORLD’S FIRST PLOYED ATOMIC BOMB OVER THE CY OF HIROSHIMA.PARACHUTG DOWN, THE BOMB EXPLOD 2,000 FEET ABOVE THE CY WH A BLAST EQUAL TO 12-15,000 TONS OF TNT. 90% OF THE CY (FIVE SQUARE ) WAS STROYED AND 80,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED STANTLY; TENS OF THOANDS DIED LATER OM RADIATN EXPOSURE.A REPORTER AT LARGE  NEW YORKER MAGAZE ~ AUGT 31, 1946 ISSUEHIROSHIMA  – OPEN LK TO READ THE ENTIRE STORY BY JOHN HERSEYCY RAVAGED BY FLAM – SADAKO KURIHARA (1912-2005)AMID BBLE /RAVAGED BY FLAM/THE LASTMOMENTS /OF THOANDS: /WHAT SADNS! /THOANDS OF PEOPLE,/TENS OF THOANDS:/LOST/THE STANT/THE BOMB EXPLOD./SILENT, ALL SORROWS/UNSPOKEN,/CY OUBBLE/RAVAGED BY FLAM:/TUMN RA FALLS.SOURCE: SHARE:CLICK TO SHARE ON FACEBOOK (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON TWTER (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON PTERT (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO EMAIL A LK TO A IEND (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO PRT (OPENS NEW WDOW)MORECLICK TO SHARE ON LKEDIN (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON REDD (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON TUMBLR (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON WHATSAPP (OPENS NEW WDOW)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE THE POSTS: 1 COMMENT
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB

ON THIS DATE AUGT 6,1945- THE “ENOLA GAY” MAK HISTORY

warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the US B-29 Superfortrs “Enola Gay”.

Hiroshima before the atomic bombgOn Tian island, a ~ 9, 000-pound uranium-235 bomb was load aboard a modified B-29 bomber named Enola Gay (named after the mother of s pilot, USAAF Colonel Pl 08:45 the morng on Augt 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped “Ltle Boy, ” the world’s first ployed atomic bomb over the cy of Hiroshima. 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.

HIROSHIMASEP 21, 2017 IN APRIL-JULY 1945 JAPANE FORC FLICTED ALLIED SUALTI TOTALG NEARLY HALF THOSE SUFFERED THREE FULL YEARS OF WAR THE PACIFIC.  IN LATE JULY, JAPAN’S ARIST ERNMENT REJECTED THE POTSDAM DECLARATN MANDG UNNDNAL SURRENR OR TOTAL STCTN. FOR THE NEW U.S. PRINT HARRY S. TMAN, THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN APPEARED EVER MORE ADLY WHEN FACED WH FEAT.GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, ALONG WH GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER, SOME MANHATTAN PROJECT SCIENTISTS AND SENR U.S. ARY MANRS REMEND A NTUATN OF NVENTNAL BOMBG FOLLOWED BY A MASSIVE VASN OF MALAND JAPAN. INFORMED THAT THE VASN WOULD ST UP TO A LN U.S. CASUALTI, PRINT TMAN OPTED TO E THE ATOMIC BOMB, HOPG TO NCLU THE WAR SWIFTLY.HIROSHIMA, A MANUFACTURG CENTER OF SOME 350,000 PEOPLE LOTED ABOUT 500 WT OF TOKYO, WAS SELECTED AS THE FIRST TARGET.HIROSHIMA BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMBGON TIAN ISLAND, A ~ 9,000-POUND URANIUM-235 BOMB WAS LOAD ABOARD A MODIFIED B-29 BOMBER NAMED ENOLA GAY (NAMED AFTER THE MOTHER OF S PILOT, USAAF COLONEL PL TIBBETS.AT 08:45 THE MORNG ON AUGT 6, 1945, THE ENOLA GAY DROPPED “LTLE BOY,” THE WORLD’S FIRST PLOYED ATOMIC BOMB OVER THE CY OF HIROSHIMA.PARACHUTG DOWN, THE BOMB EXPLOD 2,000 FEET ABOVE THE CY WH A BLAST EQUAL TO 12-15,000 TONS OF TNT. 90% OF THE CY (FIVE SQUARE ) WAS STROYED AND 80,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED STANTLY; TENS OF THOANDS DIED LATER OM RADIATN EXPOSURE.A REPORTER AT LARGE  NEW YORKER MAGAZE ~ AUGT 31, 1946 ISSUEHIROSHIMA  – OPEN LK TO READ THE ENTIRE STORY BY JOHN HERSEYCY RAVAGED BY FLAM – SADAKO KURIHARA (1912-2005)AMID BBLE /RAVAGED BY FLAM/THE LASTMOMENTS /OF THOANDS: /WHAT SADNS! /THOANDS OF PEOPLE,/TENS OF THOANDS:/LOST/THE STANT/THE BOMB EXPLOD./SILENT, ALL SORROWS/UNSPOKEN,/CY OUBBLE/RAVAGED BY FLAM:/TUMN RA FALLS.SOURCE: SHARE:CLICK TO SHARE ON FACEBOOK (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON TWTER (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON PTERT (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO EMAIL A LK TO A IEND (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO PRT (OPENS NEW WDOW)MORECLICK TO SHARE ON LKEDIN (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON REDD (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON TUMBLR (OPENS NEW WDOW)CLICK TO SHARE ON WHATSAPP (OPENS NEW WDOW)YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE THE POSTS: 1 COMMENT

Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross.

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

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.

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

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

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.

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

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. 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. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.

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. 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.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

"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. "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.

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

"Duzenbury died 1992 at age Shumard assisted flight engeer Wyatt Duzenbury keepg the Enola Gay nng. 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. 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. 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.