Enola Gay | Facts, History, & Hiroshima | Branni

Contents:

• WHY DID THE ENOLA GAY’S TAIL MARKGS CHANGE?
• ENOLA GAY
• B-29 ENOLA GAY TAIL MARKGS HELP PLEASE!!
• 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
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HERE'S WHAT THE CREW OF THE B-29 BOMBER ENOLA GAY SAW AFTER DROPPG THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB HISTORY

WHY DID THE ENOLA GAY’S TAIL MARKGS CHANGE?

The Enola Gay 2003, shortly after movg to the Steven F. Stan Harris of Brighton, Colorado, wr wh a qutn about the Enola Gay, the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Augt 6, 1945.

The Enola Gay tail markg was changed om the circle-arrow to circle-R, which was the markg for the 6th Bomb Group, 313th Wg, North Field, Tian. Krss not that while three B-29s of the 509th did have a square-P tail mark (which stood for the 39th Bomb Group, 314th Wg, North Field, Guam) while on Tian, the Enola Gay was not among them. The Enola Gay and other 509th bombers also had the last two digs of their serial numbers pated on the nose and on the felage near the tail.

ENOLA GAY

It’s possible, Krss says, that the Enola Gay might have had a P on s tail when flew as one of 13 B-29s performg weather and radlogil rennaissance missns Operatn Crossroads, the atomic bomb tts at Biki atoll July 1946, “but not durg s time on Tian.

B-29 ENOLA GAY TAIL MARKGS HELP PLEASE!!

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. Tibbets and his crew took off om Tian  Enola Gay at 2:45 am on Augt 6, 1945.

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

Upon visual lotn of Hiroshima, Tom Ferebee aimed for the cy center and Enola Gay dropped the “Ltle Boy” bomb om 31, 000 feet at 9:15 am.

After “Ltle Boy” left the forward bomb bay, Enola Gay lurched upward, and Tibbets iated a high angle evasive manver to get as far away om Hiroshima as possible. ” Enola Gay land back at Tian 12 hours later at approximately 3 pm. Enola Gay tail gunner Bob Caron took this picture of the cloud of smoke billowg 20, 000 feet above Hiroshima after the explosn of the Ltle Boy atomic bomb on Augt 6, 1945.

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

The history and memory of Enola Gay and s part the atomic attacks on Japan, and their effect on endg the war the Pacific and the nuclear tensns of the Cold War, reflects differg viewpots. The Smhsonian has been at the center of bat over those differg perspectiv terms of the terpretatn and public display of Enola Gay. Air Force the late 1940s, Enola Gay remaed storage for s.

Enola Gay was to be the central artifact a planned exhibn at the Mm examg the atomic bombgs durg the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Boeg B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay is now on display at the Steven F. In a revised exhibn, Enola Gay’s forward felage and bomb bay, two eng, a propeller, and other ponents, cludg a activated Ltle Boy bomb, went on display the Natnal Mall Buildg om June 1995 to May 1998.

Udvar-Hazy Center opened December 2003, the fully-assembled Enola Gay went on permanent display the World War II Aviatn display area the Boeg Aviatn Hangar. The display of the Enola Gay has generated a variety of rpons rangg om public protts  1995 and 2003 to opposg pots of view exprsed  alternative exhibns, petns, and reports, and ntu to serve as a se study  prentg history the public sphere that is vigoroly discsed and bated to this day.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

Enola Gay on display the Boeg Aviatn Hangar of the Steven F.

The flight of the Enola Gay on Augt 6, 1945, signifi an end and a begng terms of our evolvg unrstandg of technology and warfare the twentieth century. Did the B-29 Enola Gay have the "Circle R" or the "Circle Arrow" on 's tail on the day dropped the A-bomb? Perhaps you might answer a query: the upper picture above the number “2” on the Enola Gay ( aft felage), is that a mera port or what?

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

I was lookg at #109 on the cutaway (labeled "oblique mera") which looks to be where the wdow is above the #2 the 82 on the Enola Gay picture. I found the photo on le somewhere while diggg up rearch on ENOLA GAY, that photo is om the terr of 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.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F. I am the procs of vtigatg the ACCURATE tail markgs of the Boeg B-29 Enola Gay.

I have also found some pictur showg the Enola Gay wh an arrow potg to the ont also si a big circle and the tip of the dr pated red. I want my mol to have the livery the Enola Gay had when dropped the "Ltle Boy" bomb over Hiroshima on Augt 6, 1945. Jt to clarify, Enola Gay was NOT one of the three B-29s of the 309th that sported the P ( 39th Bomb Group, 314th Wg) on the tail, at least durg s time on Tian.

Enola Gay may have had a P on the tail when flew as part of Operatn Crossroads, flyg om Kwajale atoll, the Marshall Islands durg July 1946. All the Marianas based Bomb Groups ed letters rather than symbols and their markgs were substuted on the aircraft of the 509th (like Enola Gay) to avoid easy regnn of s aircraft.

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

Photo Cred: WikipediaThe Enola Gay was a Boeg B-29 Superfortrs bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Pl Tibbets. Lewis durg the fal stag of World War II, beme the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb Day the Enola Gay Arrived on Tian North Fieldby MSgt William M. So that is exactly what I did not realizg, until fifty-two years later, when gog through some old war photos my Bomb Group Album that I had taken a picture of the Enola Gay the day that arrived on Tian.

The arrow on the vertil f of the Enola Gay was replaced wh the 6th Bomb Group Insignia that nsisted of a black R si a black circle.