For the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Natnal Air and Space Mm proposed a ntroversial exhibn that displayed the Enola Gay.
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- QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA
- ENOLA GAY
- CONTROVERSY OVER THE ENOLA GAY EXHIBN
- EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA
Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target, and stroyed most of the cy. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Pl Warfield Tibbets, Jr. * enola gay hiroshima and nagasaki *
En ta explosión murieron bomba Hiroshima fue transportada por un bombarro tipo Boeg B-29 llamado 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.
ENOLA GAY
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Tibbets personally selected plane number 82 for the missn, and, shortly before takg off at approximately 2:45 am on Augt 6, 1945, Tibbets asked a matenance worker to pat his mother’s name—Enola Gay—on the nose of the aircraft. Two other B-29s acpanied the Enola Gay to serve as observatn and mera plan. Once the Enola Gay was airborne, Parsons add the fal ponents to Ltle Boy.
The ski were clear, and the Enola Gay enuntered no opposn while approachg the target. At 7:15 am (Tian time) Parsons armed the weapon, and the Enola Gay ascend to an attack altu of 31, 000 feet (9, 450 metr). Jt after 8:00 am lol time (9:00 am Tian time), the crew of the Enola Gay sighted Hiroshima.
Tibbets immediately put the Enola Gay to a sharp turn that, he hoped, would rry beyond the bomb’s blast radi. Bob Caron, the Enola Gay’s tail gunner and the only member of the crew to directly observe the blast, scribed the scene as a “peep to hell.
CONTROVERSY OVER THE ENOLA GAY EXHIBN
” A seri of shockwav rocked the Enola Gay as parted the area, and at a distance of nearly 400 (640 km) the mhroom cloud was still visible. For the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Natnal Air and Space Mm (NASM) proposed an exhibn that would clu displayg the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that was ed to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. Enola Gay, after the war.
Followg World War II, the Enola Gay had been moved around om lotn to lotn. In 1961, the Enola Gay was fully disassembled and moved to the Pl E. The veterans formed “the Commtee for the Rtoratn and Proud Display of the Enola Gay” to raise funds.
EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
Lenthal, who was on the advisory board of the Enola Gay exhib. This visn clud his nsc cisn to display the Enola Gay.
At first, the Enola Gay was planned to be displayed at an annex NASM facily near Washgton Dull Internatnal Airport. The Enola Gay had recently fished beg renovated and the mm had been ncerned about transportatn and reassemble fe; therefore, the proposed annex appeared to be a ftg lotn.