Why the Enola Gay's pilot had no regrets droppg the first atom bomb

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• ENOLA GAY’S ‘LTLE BOY’
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• THE ENOLA GAY

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. In the early morng hours of Augt 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off om Tian and proceed north by northwt toward Japan.

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

Hiroshima time, the Enola Gay released “Ltle Boy” over the cy. Even though the Enola Gay had already flown 11 and a half away om the target after droppg s payload, was rocked by the blast. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, wav om the ckp before takeoff, Augt 6, 1945.

Read the blog post Harry Tman and the Bomb and the not of Capta Robert Lewis, -pilot of the Enola Gay, to learn more about the first atomic aomb.

ENOLA GAY’S ‘LTLE BOY’

One the was that sgle Pacific missn that forever altered the urse of history and brought the world to the atomic Kirk, then 24, was the navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped “Ltle Boy” — the world’s first atomic bomb — over the Japane cy of Hiroshima on Aug. The 9, 000-pound bomb fell down toward the cy as the Enola Gay banked away, the crew hopg to pe wh their liv. “The missn self was very easy — went exactly acrdg to plan, ” Van Kirk tch: It wasn’t known whether the bomb would actually work, or if did, whether the bomb’s shockwav would rip the Enola Gay (named after Tibbets’ mother) to crew thought about this after they unload the weapon over Hiroshima.

Servicemen, but did not speak publicly about his role as a crew member aboard the Enola Gay, mostly out of ncern for his recent years, Jeppson, now 83, has stepped forward to share his views of the events of 60 years ago. It was the luck of a toss that put Jeppson on the Enola Gay on Aug. The new Udvar-Hazy Center at the Smhsonian’s Natnal Air and Space Mm was about to open wh the Enola Gay on display.

Instead of 12 men on the Enola Gay, people would thk there were only the time, Van Kirk said the missn would not have been a succs whout Parsons and the center opened, mm officials clud a list of all 12 men as part of a display acpanyg the, Jeppson said he has no regrets about beg volved wh the bombg and strsed the natn had been attacked. 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. The Enola Gay was 10 away when the blast went off, but still felt the shockwav.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

But how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day?

Air ForceThe Boeg B-29 Superfortrs, Enola Gay, that rried Ltle Boy.

Wikimedia Commons The crew on Tian Island loads Ltle Boy to the Enola Gay, Augt of 1945. Alongsi the overwhelmg amount of Japane cizens who had no ia what would befall them sends later was most of the crew of the Enola Gay. As one of the crew members of the Enola Gay med, “I hope there will never be another.

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

“Ltle Boy” was the name for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japane cy of Hiroshima on 6 Augt 1945 durg World War II by the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Pl W. On Augt 6, 1945, a mhroom cloud billows to the sky about one hour after an atomic bomb was dropped by Amerin B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, tonatg above Hiroshima, Japan.

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.

THE ENOLA GAY

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. 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.