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Contents:

• DID THE PILOTS OF THE ENOLA GAY THE WW2 BOMBER M SUICI?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• THEODORE VAN KIRK, LAST CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY, DI US AGED 93
• ENOLA GAY PILOT PL TIBBETS, 92, DI
• LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

ENOLA GAY

” 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

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.

On Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the cy of Hiroshima.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR 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.

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.

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

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.

ENOLA GAY PILOT PL TIBBETS, 92, DI

Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 92, Di. 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.

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

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

But how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day? He was Kirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortrs aircraft that dropped “Ltle Boy” – the world’s first atomic bomb – over the Japane cy of Hiroshima on 6 Augt 1945. Pl Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday at his home Columb, Oh after sufferg a number of health problems.

6, 1945, when Tibbets flew the B-29 bomber Enola Gay over the Japane cy of Hiroshima and released a 10, 000-pound atomic bomb dubbed "Ltle Boy.

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

Tibbets aga fend the bombg 1995, when an outcry epted over a planned 50th anniversary exhib of the Enola Gay at the Smhsonian Instutn. 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.