After the Enola Gay beme the first plane to drop an atomic bomb — on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 — the B-29 bomber stayed airborne.
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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
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. * 6 ağustos 1945 enola gay *
warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the US B-29 Superfortrs “Enola Gay”.
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
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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.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
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. * 6 ağustos 1945 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.
THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
Klsouth: Origal Headle: Aug 6, 1945: Amerin bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima On this day 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japane time, an Amerin B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the cy of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct rult... * 6 ağustos 1945 enola gay *
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. 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
Bound for sty and Hiroshima, the Enola Gay rried 12 men, hope, and the power for epic stctn. The silver airplane, named for the pilot’s mother, barely got off the ground that morng wh the world’s first atomic bomb. * 6 ağustos 1945 enola gay *
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.
THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 75 years ago, brgg an end to World War II and makg the Enola Gay one of the most famo B-29s history., * 6 ağustos 1945 enola gay *
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.
HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
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.