The ground crew of the B-29 "Enola Gay" which atom-bombed Hiroshima, Japan. Col. Pl W. Tibbets, the pilot is the center. Photographed on Marianas Islands Guam. The entire Enola Gay's flyg crew on Augt 6, 1945 nsisted of twelve men: Colonel Pl W. Tibbets, Jr. – aircraft manr, Capta Robert A. Lewis – -pilot and Enola Gay's assigned aircraft manr, Major Thomas Ferebee – bombardier, Capta Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk – navigator, U.S. Navy Capta William S. "Deak" Parsons – weaponeer and bomb manr, Litenant Jab Ber – radar untermeasur (also the only man to fly on both nuclear bombg aircraft), Send Litenant Morris R. Jeppson – assistant weaponeer, Technil Sergeant Gee R. "Bob" Caron – tail gunner, Technil Sergeant Wyatt E. Duzenberry, flight engeer, Sergeant Joe S. Stiborik – radar, Sergeant Robert H. Shumard – assistant flight engeer, and Private First Class Richard M. Nelson – rad operator. (UPI Photo/USAF/Fil)
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- ENOLA GAY CREW
- THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
- ENOLA GAY TIBBETS PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
- RARE PHOTOS SURFACE OF ENOLA GAY, BOCKSR
- GROUND CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ATOMIC BOMBER
- ENOLA GAY CREW AUTOGRAPHS, MEMORABILIA & COLLECTIBL
- ENOLA GAY
- TIBBET'S 'ENOLA GAY' CREW
ENOLA GAY CREW
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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.
THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
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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.
ENOLA GAY TIBBETS PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
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. * pictures of the crew of the enola gay *
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. Jt as s unterpart the Enola Gay, the Bocksr had been altered to serve the purpose of rryg and ployg the heavy bomb.
Toward the end of the war he photographed the Enola Gay and Bocksr. Johns’ hband Erw was statned the Pacific 1945 and enuntered the two plan that dropped the bombs, the Enola Gay and Bocksr, days before they rried out the missn.
RARE PHOTOS SURFACE OF ENOLA GAY, BOCKSR
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The Enola Gay was the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Augt 6, 1945.
In the vio Erw said he and the other men statned on Tian were aware the Enola Gay and Bocksr were not beg load wh the typil ordance. Johns took hundreds of photos durg his time the Pacific and managed to photograph the Enola Gay before s famo missn. For this reason alone, the photos taken by Erw are valuable to historians, but is the pictur of the Enola Gay and Bocksr that are most imprsive.
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.
GROUND CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ATOMIC BOMBER
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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. 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.
ENOLA GAY CREW AUTOGRAPHS, MEMORABILIA & COLLECTIBL
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. * pictures of the crew of the enola gay *
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.
ENOLA GAY
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.
TIBBET'S 'ENOLA GAY' CREW
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.