What Happened to the Enola Gay After Hiroshima? | Time

Contents:

• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• INTERVIEWS WH CREW MEMBERS OF THE ‘ENOLA GAY’
• HERE'S WHAT THE CREW OF THE B-29 BOMBER ENOLA GAY SAW AFTER DROPPG THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB HISTORY
• CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY
• INTERVIEWS WITH CREW MEMBERS OF THE 'ENOLA GAY' [ALLOTED TLE]
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• HIROSHIMA; ENOLA GAY'S CREW RELLS THE FLIGHT INTO A NEW ERA
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB

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. "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.

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

INTERVIEWS WH CREW MEMBERS OF THE ‘ENOLA GAY’

He armed the first atomic bomb while the Enola Gay was airborne.

HERE'S WHAT THE CREW OF THE B-29 BOMBER ENOLA GAY SAW AFTER DROPPG THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB HISTORY

He was upset that manr Pl Tibbets had named his plane the Enola Gay. There were three strike plan that flew over Hiroshima that day: the Enola Gay, which rried the bomb, and two observatn plan, the Great Artiste and the Necsary Evil. The Enola Gay rried the weapon, nicknamed "Ltle Boy.

CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY

Then, the rad went ad: that was the signal om the Enola Gay that the bomb had been released.

INTERVIEWS WITH CREW MEMBERS OF THE 'ENOLA GAY' [ALLOTED TLE]

The crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay was among the few to wns the first e of the atomic bomb on Augt 6, had expected somethg fierce, but what they saw was still a fearsome and awome Bs Insir's homepage for more stori. Shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Augt 6, 1945, the Enola Gay's tail gunner, Bob Caron, wrote his wife that the crew had jt received a medal and she'd be readg about what they had done the newspapers. Pl Tibbets, who named the B-29 the "Enola Gay" after his mother, told Caron to scribe what he saw to the crew over the ter.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

He was a radarman on the Enola Gay and performed the same duti on would later wre that "No, I feel no sorrow or remorse for whatever small role I played. Fifty years after the crew of the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hasteng Japan's surrenr, The Amerin Legn honored Tibbets and his crew wh the Distguished Service Medal.

"There is no doubt my md that many of you who are here today would not be here if hadn't been for the urageo missn of the men of the Enola Gay, " Natnal Commanr William Detweiler told nventn legat. As Enola Gay's pilot, Tibbets said Pearl Harbor was the animatg force for his missn.

Tibbets named the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, for his mother.

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

Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb, "Ltle Boy, " was dropped at 8:15 a.

For more on the Enola Gay, click here (). But once upon a time, you flew a plane lled the Enola Gay over the cy of Hiroshima, Japan, on a Sunday morng – Augt 6 1945 – and a bomb fell. You were the pilot of that Tibbets:Y, I was the Terkel:And the Enola Gay was named after…Pl Tibbets:My mother.

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

She was Enola Gay Haggard before she married my dad, and my dad never supported me wh the flyg – he hated airplan and motorcycl. I knew right away Iwas gog to get Tom Ferebee [the Enola Gay’s bombardier] and Theodore “Dutch” van Kirk [navigator] and Wyatt Duzenbury [flight engeer] Terkel:Guys you had flown wh Europe? ” That’s their tough luck for beg Terkel:By the way, I fot to say Enola Gay was origally lled “Number 82.

HIROSHIMA; ENOLA GAY'S CREW RELLS THE FLIGHT INTO A NEW ERA

Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 92, Di.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.

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

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.