Studs Terkel Interview wh Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 2002

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Pl Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, talks to thor Bob Greene about the bombg and the lgerg effects of World War II on those who fought . Greene's prev nversatns wh Tibbets were the basis for his btsellg book, Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War.

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PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

​Early the morng of Augt 6, 1945, a U.S. Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off wh a 9,700 top-secret bomb named Ltle Boy. * pilot of enola gay interview *

Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 92, Di.

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

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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.

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?

PL TIBBETS, PILOT OF THE ENOLA GAY

After the Enola Gay beme the first plane to drop an atomic bomb — on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 — the B-29 bomber stayed airborne. * pilot of enola gay interview *

” That’s their tough luck for beg Terkel:By the way, I fot to say Enola Gay was origally lled “Number 82. 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. So when Enola Gay approached at 8.

The Enola Gay was 10 away when the blast went off, but still felt the shockwav. But how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day? Pl Tibbets, Pilot of the Enola Gay.

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

Pl Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, talks to thor Bob Greene about the bombg and the lgerg effects of World War II on those who fought .

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

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

ENOLA GAY: PILOT’S-EYE VIEW

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.

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Studs Terkel Interview wh Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 2002 .

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