Why Enola Gay Pilot Did Not Regret Droppg the First Atom Bomb

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• IN 1955 AN AMERIN TV SHOW DID THE UNTHKABLE: IT AMBHED A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR WH AN ENOLA GAY PILOT
• PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY PILOT PL TIBBETS, 92, DI
• PL W. TIBBETS JR., PILOT OF ENOLA GAY, DI AT 92
• HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

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.

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

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.

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.

IN 1955 AN AMERIN TV SHOW DID THE UNTHKABLE: IT AMBHED A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR WH AN ENOLA GAY PILOT

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.

PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY

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.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

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. Robert Lewis, -pilot and aircraft manr of the Enola Gay — the B-29 bomber that unleashed the first atomic bomb, Ltle Boy, on the cy of Hiroshima on Aug.

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

“He wasn’t horrified by meetg Capta Lewis, the -pilot of the Enola Gay. 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.

Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 92, Di. 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 CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

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? 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.

ENOLA GAY PILOT PL TIBBETS, 92, DI

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.

PL W. TIBBETS JR., PILOT OF ENOLA GAY, DI AT 92

"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.

Pl Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday at his home Columb, Oh after sufferg a number of health problems. 6, 1945, when Tibbets flew the B-29 bomber Enola Gay over the Japane cy of Hiroshima and released a 10, 000-pound atomic bomb dubbed "Ltle Boy. Tibbets aga fend the bombg 1995, when an outcry epted over a planned 50th anniversary exhib of the Enola Gay at the Smhsonian Instutn.

Tibbets Jr., the manr and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima the fal days of World War II, died today at his home Columb, Oh.

HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER

6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted off om the island of Tian rryg a uranium atomic bomb assembled unr extraordary secrecy the vast enavor known as the Manhattan and a half hours later, unr clear ski, then-Colonel Tibbets, of the Army Air Forc, guid the four-enge plane he had named honor of his mother toward the bomb’s aimg pot, the T-shaped Ai Bridge the center of Hiroshima, the se of an important Japane army 8:15 a. His mother, the former Enola Gay Haggard, grew up on an Iowa farm and was named for a character a novel her father was readg shortly before she was born. On July 16, an atomic bomb was succsfully tted the New Mexi sert, and when Japan ignored a surrenr mand issued at the Potsdam Conference, Colonel Tibbets pleted fal preparatns to drop a uranium Enola Gay, rryg a crew of 12, rried out a flawls missn, liverg the bomb on time, almost precisely on target and wh no opposn om Japane fighters.

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

” In 1976, he drew a prott om Hiroshima’s mayor, Takhi Araki, when he flew a B-29 a simulatn of the Hiroshima bombg at an air show 1995, the Enola Gay’s forward felage and some other parts of the plane were displayed at the Smhsonian’s Natnal Air and Space Mm Washgton. General Tibbets’s plane — the name Enola Gay hly repated — was left to speak for December 2003, the Enola Gay found another home. On Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortrs bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Toward the end of his life, Enola Gay's pilot was unrepentant sayg they saved "a lot of liv. Early the morng of Augt 6, 1945, a US Air Force B-29 Superfortrs, the Enola Gay, took off om s base Tian, near Guam, and head for the cy of Hiroshima southern was rryg a 9, 700-pound top-secret bomb named Ltle Boy. Hiroshima had already been woken by several air-raid sirens that morng, which had proved to be false when the Enola Gay approached at 8:15 a.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

The pilot's seat of the Enola Gay moments before takg off for the missn to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

The Enola Gay was 10 away when the blast went off, but still felt the shockwav. A bate has raged ever sce over whether the US was right to lnch the have argued that the bombgs were an humane targetg of civilians and that there were other optns ntend that such vastatn was necsary to force Japan's surrenr and avoid a adly ary mpaign through the Japane how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day? Some of the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 plane om which the first atom bomb was dropped.

Tibbets Jr., 30, had handpicked the airplane on the assembly le Nebraska three months before and had jt had his mother’s name, “Enola Gay, ” pated black letters on the the plane mbled down the airstrip at over 100 mph, he had his lucky cigarette se wh him one pocket, and a box ntag 12 cyani psul Aug. Two other B-29s, the “Great Artiste” and “Necsary Evil, ” were supposed to go along to take pictur and rerd “Enola Gay” was the “strike ship. ”Fifteen hundred to the north-northwt, unr a wang crcent moon, lay a 400-year-old Japane cy most Amerins probably had never heard of but whose name was about to be etched to the pag of was an important enemy ary se wh a wartime populatn about 280, 000, acrdg to the historians Gordon Thomas and Max half of them were about to be cerated, cshed, and irradiated by the c atomic weapon named “Ltle Boy” that the Enola Gay of thoands more would die the same way at Nagasaki a few days later, and the world would subsequently be hearg about megatons, mutual assured stctn, proliferatn, nuclear wter, meltdowns and dirty would be the start of a ightful era of weapons that uld fy ntrol and menace as “Dimpl Eight Two” picked up speed that morng, s missn was born of s time: liver a blow that the Uned Stat hoped might fally end the global butchery of World War II.