Here's why the pilot of Enola Gay had no regrets about droppg the first atom bomb signed by Oppenheimer

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA LOG OF THE ENOLA GAY
• IN 1955 AN AMERIN TV SHOW DID THE UNTHKABLE: IT AMBHED A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR WH AN ENOLA GAY PILOT
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

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. ” 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.

The strike plane rryg the Ltle Boy Atomic Bomb is Enola Gay, which is piloted by Col. His job was to rerd the flight path of Enola Gay this log, which was provid to the Atomic Herage Foundatn by Clay Perks. This document begs on 2:55am when Enola Gay tak off and ends on 2:58pm when they land back at the base Tian Island.

HIROSHIMA LOG OF THE ENOLA GAY

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IN 1955 AN AMERIN TV SHOW DID THE UNTHKABLE: IT AMBHED A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR WH AN ENOLA GAY PILOT

Enola Gay, Hiroshima Missn. Enola Gay, Nagasaki Missn.

The crews for Straight Flh, Full Hoe, and Jab III flew their regularly assigned plan for the atomic bombg missns, but the crews regularly assigned to the Enola Gay, Bocksr, The Great Artiste, Necsary Evil, Lagg’ Dragon, and Up an’ Atom flew different plan for the missns. Enola Gay, Regular Crew (Crew B-9).

Enola Gay was flown by a modified Crew B-9 for the Hiroshima missn and Crew B-10 for the Nagasaki missn. Crew B-10 flew four bat missns, cludg the Hiroshima bombg missn which they flew  Necsary Evil and the Nagasaki bombg missn which they flew  Enola Gay.

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

Robert Lewis, -pilot and aircraft manr of the Enola Gay — the B-29 bomber that unleashed the first atomic bomb, Ltle Boy, on the cy of Hiroshima on Aug. “He wasn’t horrified by meetg Capta Lewis, the -pilot of the Enola Gay.

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.

HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER

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.

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

Galerie Bilrwelt/Getty ImagOn Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortrs bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on was the first atomic-bomb attack and stroyed the cy, killg 80, 000 people the end of his life, Enola Gay's pilot was unrepentant sayg they saved "a lot of liv.

"Early the morng of Augt 6, 1945, a US Air Force B-29 Superfortrs, the Enola Gay, took off om s base Tian, near Guam, and head for the cy of Hiroshima southern was rryg a 9, 700-pound top-secret bomb named Ltle Boy.

Hiroshima had already been woken by several air-raid sirens that morng, which had proved to be false when the Enola Gay approached at 8:15 a. The pilot's seat of the Enola Gay moments before takg off for the missn to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Richard Cannon/Us Air Force/The LIFE Picture Collectn via Getty Imag/Getty ImagThe Enola Gay was 10 away when the blast went off, but still felt the shockwav.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

A bate has raged ever sce over whether the US was right to lnch the have argued that the bombgs were an humane targetg of civilians and that there were other optns ntend that such vastatn was necsary to force Japan's surrenr and avoid a adly ary mpaign through the Japane how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day? Some of the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 plane om which the first atom bomb was dropped.

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.