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Contents:

• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• DID THE PILOTS OF THE ENOLA GAY THE WW2 BOMBER M SUICI?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• LAST SURVIVG MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY CREW IS DEAD
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• THEODORE VAN KIRK, LAST CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY, DI US AGED 93
• ENOLA GAY

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

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.

DID THE PILOTS OF THE ENOLA GAY THE WW2 BOMBER M SUICI?

"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.

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

"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.

LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93

"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.

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

He was upset that manr Pl Tibbets had named his plane the Enola Gay. Addnally, no member of the crew of the Enola Gay received. 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.

LAST SURVIVG MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY CREW IS DEAD

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.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

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. FILE: The crew of US Air Force "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortrs bomber that livered the Hiroshima atomic bomb. He was 24 years old when he served as navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the first atomic bomb ployed wartime over the Japane cy of Hiroshima on Aug.

THEODORE VAN KIRK, LAST CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY, DI US AGED 93

After Capta Robert Lewis wrote his unofficial acunt, he hid om senr officers by disguisg as a letter to his parents Capta Lewis's eight page letter is now for sale and acrdg to the ctneers ' is his first hand, personal acunt of a missn that changed the world' The letter is one of six pi ma by Capta Lewis and is on sale Capt Lewis' unofficial ntemporary acunt is the only one om a crew member of the B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, that not to aroe spicn om superr officers back at his base, he disguised his report of the top secret missn as a letter to his mother and father.

'Capt Lewis took the acunt home wh him and kept until he sold at ctn he parted wh , the former airmen wrote out by hand six exact pi - one for his wife and one each for their five origal was later sold 2002 to an anonymo buyer who has never displayed on sale is the officer's sketch of the bomb's mhroom cloud pictured alongsi and official photograph of the actual tonatn Tom Lamb, of ctneers Bomhams, which is sellg 'fair py number four' of the origal acunt for an timated £40, 000 ($55, 000), said: 'The exact pi reprent the only viewable first hand evince of the flight, wrten out wh a clary and a vastatg accuracy, by the man who piloted the Enola Gay. 'Capt Lewis was born New Jersey and joed the US Air Force at the start of the beme one of the lead tt pilots for Ameri's new B29 bomber, flyg almost daily between 1944 to 1945 practisg the bombg ns they were to rry out on Augt 6, 1945 he was the -pilot of Enola Gay which left Tian island the Pacific at 2. The crew of the Enola Gay pose ont of the aircraft.

Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off om the s base Tian, near Guam, and head for the cy of Hiroshima southern Japan. So when Enola Gay approached at 8.

ENOLA GAY

The Enola Gay was 10 away when the blast went off, but still felt the shockwav.

But how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day? The crew of the Enola Gay bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima is now only the history books.