Enola Gay | Natnal Air and Space Mm

Contents:

• R. NELSON, 77; ENOLA GAY RAD MAN
• EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
• ENOLA GAY
• ENOLA GAY
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY PILOT PL TIBBETS, 92, DI

R. NELSON, 77; ENOLA GAY RAD MAN

Richard Nelson, the rad operator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, has died. 7, 2003 For The Rerd Los Angel Tim Friday Febary 07, 2003 Home Edn Ma News Part A Page 2 Natnal Dk 10 ch; 365 words Type of Material: Correctn Hiroshima bomb -- The obuary of Richard Nelson, rad operator aboard the Enola Gay, the California sectn Thursday rrectly said the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had the stctive force of 20, 000 pounds of TNT.

At 20, Nelson was the youngt of the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay, whose historic missn on Aug. 6, 1945, helped brg an early end to the war wh Japan but hered a new, far more horrific type of Enola Gay, the propeller-driven four-enge bomber named after the mother of s pilot, Col.

M., clear ski high above Hiroshima, the Enola Gay’s bombardier released “Ltle Boy”: a 9, 700-pound uranium bomb that had the stctive force of 20, 000 pounds of s eng nng at maximum power after droppg the bomb, the Enola Gay was about eight away at 8:16 a.

EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

Days after the bombg of Hiroshima, another B-29 Superfortrs dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, persuadg the Japane to bomb om the Enola Gay stroyed about five square of Hiroshima and stantly killed about 68, 000 people. Transferred to rad school Iowa, he graduated near the top of his was assigned to the 509th Compose Group, a secret, handpicked group trag for an undisclosed missn head by they were on Tian, a small island the Marianas cha, the Enola Gay crew flew practice missns over Japan. ”Navigator Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, who, along wh Tibbets and weaponeer Morris Jeppson are the only survivg Enola Gay crew members, relled Wednday that he had been ncerned about the lack of bat experience of Nelson and other crew Kirk said that he, Tibbets and the bombardier, Maj.

“This, ” she says, “is what I ll the Enola Gay Room.

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Nancy Nelson, 88, a widow of Richard Nelson, who was a radman on the Enola Gay, the Army plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan durg World War II, holds a mol of the plane si a room voted to the event and her hband at her home Riversi on Thursday, Augt 6, 2020.

Nancy Nelson, 88, the widow of Richard Nelson, who was a radman on the Enola Gay, the Army plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan durg World War II, ss a room voted to the event and her hband at her Riversi home on Thursday, Augt 6, 2020. Nancy Nelson, 88, looks through a photo album and memorabilia of her late hband Richard Nelson, who was a radman on the Enola Gay, the Army plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan durg World War II, at her Riversi home on Thursday, Augt 6, 2020. The Enola Gay, named for the mother of lonel and pilot Pl Tibbets, took off at 2:45 a.

The Enola Gay turned and head back toward the base.

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Her Enola Gay room has photos of the plane and of her hband. In later years, Nelson attend 509th rnns and Enola Gay events. He was the rad operator on the Enola Gay durg s missn to Hiroshima.

After droppg the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Nelson sent a seri of d msag back to Tian reportg the Enola Gay‘s succs.

The primary short wave receiver the Enola Gay was lled a "liaison" receiver, so lled bee. Throat microphon were ed the Enola Gay unls oxygen masks. The Enola Gay had a plex spectm of avnics dited to navigatn.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

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Many veterans had advoted for the display of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs ed to drop the bombs, as a celebratn of Amerin triumph over Japan, but there were already ncerns that the Smhsonian was creatg a polilly rrect, revisnist terpretatn of the events. Harw rigned on May 2, 1995, jt days before he was schled to ttify Senate June 28, 1995, an exhibn, simply tled "Enola Gay, " opened at the Natnal Air and Space Mm.

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

Unlike the ncelled exhibn, "Enola Gay" ntaed no terpretatn, no graphic imag, and no melted objects. Only the felage was on display, acpanied by basic facts and rmatn about the plane's entire Enola Gay bomber is currently on display the "World War II Aviatn" exhibn at the Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.

Related RourcCollectns related to the Enola Gay, Smhsonian Instutn ArchivThe Enola Gay: A Natn's, and a Mm's, Dilemma, Edorial by Mart Harw, The Washgton Post, Augt 7, 1994Special Report: The Smhsonian and the Enola Gay, Air Force Associatn, March 15, 1994Smhsonian Cancels Exhib on Atomic Bomb, The Baltimore Sun, January 31, 1995Recent Acquisn - Rerds om Mart Harw, Director, NASM, 1986-1995, The Bigger Picture, Smhsonian Instutn Archiv. 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.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

” 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. Enola Gay.

While this exhib is now closed, Mm specialists ntued to rtore the remag ponents of the airplane, and after an addnal ne years the fully assembled Enola Gay went on permanent display at the Natnal Air and Space Mm’s Steven F. This past exhibn, cidg wh the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, told the story of the role of the Enola Gay securg Japane surrenr.

It ntaed several major ponents of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber ed the atomic missn that stroyed Hiroshima, Japan. A vio prentatn about the Enola Gay's missn clud terviews wh the crew before and after the missn cludg missn pilot Col. Another portn of the exhib tailed the pastakg efforts of Smhsonian aircraft rtoratn specialists who had spent more than a rtorg parts of the Enola Gay for this exhibn.

EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

Boeg B-29 Superfortrs "Enola Gay". Frequently Asked Qutns Regardg Exhibn of B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay.

The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. A sgle airplane livered the new weapon of mass stctn—the Enola Gay. On permanent display at the Natnal Air and Space Mm’s Udvar-Hazy Center Chantilly, Virgia, the Enola Gay was donated to the Smhsonian Instutn by the U.

The ckp of the B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

Although missg a few parts, the Enola Gay is now rtored so generatns of Amerins n see the plane that left an lible mark the annals of time.

ENOLA GAY PILOT PL TIBBETS, 92, DI

But you have to be that wh the missn of the Enola Gay, which brgs the dimensn of the role of technology war.

As lead pilot, he named the Enola Gay after his mother.

As the Enola Gay ma s fal approach to Hiroshima that day, Tibbets ascend to 31, 000 feet, then turned over ntrols to Ferebee.

The Enola Gay was then buffeted vlently when stck by two shock wav—one direct and the other reflected om the ground. This was two plan—the Enola Gay and the backup plane. In 1995, a 50th anniversary exhibn of the end of World War II, anized by curators and the director at the Natnal Air and Space Mm and displayg the felage of the Enola Gay, met wh unprecented cricism after veterans groups cricized the exhibn’s script for beg overly sympathetic to the Japane and the mm’s historians for beg misleadg and unpatrtic.

The Enola Gay was the bt aircraft of s era, but the velopment of that technology me wh a price. When the rtored Enola Gay went on permanent display 2003 at the Udvar-Hazy Center, attracted que a b of attentn.

The rtored Enola Gay is now on view at the Smhsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center Chantilly, Virgia. For years after the war, the crew of the Enola Gay never wavered their belief they did what they had to do. 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. 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.