75 Years Ago: The Flight of the Enola Gay | Natnal Air and Space Mm

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY
• MORRIS JEPPSON, AIRMAN WHO FLEW ON THE ENOLA GAY, DI AT 87
• WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PLANE THAT WAS ENOLA GAY’S BACKUP?
• ENOLA GAY: THE MEN, THE MISSN, THE ATOMIC BOMB
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• ENOLA GAY: WHAT EXACTLY WAS IT AND WHO USED IT?
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

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 CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

” 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.

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

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.

On Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the cy of Hiroshima.

PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY

"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.

MORRIS JEPPSON, AIRMAN WHO FLEW ON THE ENOLA GAY, DI AT 87

"Nelson died om emphysema 2003 at age Gay tail gunner Bob Caron wrote a book about the missn lled Fire of a Thoand Suns. 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. 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.

WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PLANE THAT WAS ENOLA GAY’S BACKUP?

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: THE MEN, THE MISSN, THE ATOMIC BOMB

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.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas.

The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.

Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F. And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

The crew of the Enola Gay (top row left to right): Lt. He was makg a tour of the untry to promote a patg of the famed B-29 named Enola Gay on s historic missn. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMorris Jeppson, Airman Who Flew on the Enola Gay, Di at 87April 7, 2010Morris R.

Jeppson, an Army Air Forc electronics specialist who helped arm the atomic bomb aboard the Enola Gay as flew to Hiroshima, died March 30 at a hospal Las Vegas.

Jeppson, who was 87 and lived Las Vegas, was the next-to-last survivor of the 12 men who rried out history’s first atomic ath was announced by his wife, the Enola Gay lifted off om the island of Tian the South Pacific the early hours of Aug. Parsons of the Navy, the officer overall ntrol of the uranium bomb known as Ltle Boy, Litenant Jeppson checked s circus, timg vic and radar a flawls six-and-a-half-hour flight, the bomb systems workg perfectly, the Enola Gay’s pilot, Col. The bomb was dropped at 8:15 the morng and explod 43 sends later, creatg an ferno that left tens of thoands ad or the Enola Gay returned to Tian, Litenant Jeppson went to dner.

ENOLA GAY: WHAT EXACTLY WAS IT AND WHO USED IT?

He divid his time between Wendover and the New Mexi sert before partg for Tian and the fal preparatns to drop the the bomb tonated above Hiroshima, the Enola Gay’s tailgunner was the only crewman who wnsed the explosn, Mr.

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

Jeppson sought to ctn off Enola Gay souvenirs he had brought back wh him: a green electronic plug signed to prevent an accintal tonatn flight, and a spare among the red plugs that armed the bomb and were stroyed when explod.