The Enola Gay and the secret history behd the Hiroshima missn - Washgton Post

Contents:

• PL TIBBETS JR., 92; PILOTED ENOLA GAY OVER HIROSHIMA
• ENOLA GAY TIBBETS
• ENOLA GAY
• PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA
• IOWA HISTORY DAILY: AUGT 6 - PL TIBBETS AND ENOLA GAY
• ENOLA GAY: PL TIBBETS SIGNED PRT
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER
• PL TIBBETS, PILOT OF THE ENOLA GAY
• CAPTA PL TIBBETS THE ENOLA GAY MUT BEFORE TAKEOFF TO DROP THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA, 1945
• ENOLA GAY BY TIBBETS, SIGNED (38 RULTS)
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

PL TIBBETS JR., 92; PILOTED ENOLA GAY OVER HIROSHIMA

Tibbets Jr., who piloted the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb bat an attack that helped end World War II and her the atomic age, died yterday at his home Columb, Oh. "It would have been morally wrong if we'd have had that weapon and not ed and let a ln more people die, " he late 1944, Tibbets, then a lonel, was selected for the top-secret bombg missn over Japan, the culmatn of the Manhattan Enola Gay, named after his mother, took off om Tian Island, near the Pacific island of Guam, the predawn hours of Aug. "After the Enola Gay flight, the Japane did not lay down arms.

His role the atomic bombg of Japan ntued to attract ntroversy, as when he participated a miature reenactment of the bombg at a 1976 air show , the general beme angered about the planned 50th-anniversary exhib of the Enola Gay at the Smhsonian Instutn that clud a lengthy explanatn of the sufferg ed by the atomic attacks.

Historil rerds matchg Enola Gay Tibbets. About Enola Gay Tibbets.

ENOLA GAY TIBBETS

Enola Gay Tibbets was the dghter of Aled Allen Haggard and Mary Lava Wareham.

The Enola Gay, a B-29 Bomber piloted by her son and the first aircraft to drop the atomic bomb, was named after her.

ENOLA GAY

Birth of Enola Gay Tibbets. Death of Enola Gay Tibbets. Baptism of Enola Gay Tibbets????

PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY

Burial of Enola Gay Tibbets. 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'S HISTORY LIV ON

” 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.

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. The crew of the Enola Gay (top row left to right): Lt.

QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA

He was makg a tour of the untry to promote a patg of the famed B-29 named Enola Gay on s historic missn. Seventy-five years ago, the Uned Stat dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, brgg an end to a long and vastatg World War II and makg the Enola Gay, the B-29 that livered , one of the most famo history.

The Enola Gay, known only as No.

He handpicked the plane the night before the missn, to the surprise of s crew, and had his mother’s name -- Enola Gay -- pated on s si. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay took off for Hiroshima, an important Japane ary center. It was a moment for which none of the Enola Gay’s crew -- away by then, but still rocked by the blast -- was que prepared.

IOWA HISTORY DAILY: AUGT 6 - PL TIBBETS AND ENOLA GAY

What some don’t know is that the Enola Gay flew that missn, too. Some fly ahead to check the weather to see what ’s like at the actual target, and Enola Gay was part of that for Nagasaki, " Kney said. After the bombgs and the war’s quick end, the Enola Gay remaed wh the Army Air Forc, takg part the Biki Atoll atomic tts before beg shipped to the Smhsonian 1960.

The origal patg of the words “Enola Gay” n still be seen on s si.

ENOLA GAY: PL TIBBETS SIGNED PRT

While no members of the crew that flew the Enola Gay rema to tell s story, the aircraft liv on for visors. "Enola Gay is a regnized airplane of World War II, and people want to see , " Kney said.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

"They want to see the spachip Disvery, they want to see the [SR-71] Blackbird, and they want to see the Enola Gay. En ta explosión murieron bomba Hiroshima fue transportada por un bombarro tipo Boeg B-29 llamado Enola Gay. Tibbets guid the plane, named after his mother Enola Gay, om Tian Island the Pacific Ocean towards s tend target – the Japane cy of Hiroshima.

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

Beg the pilot of the Enola Gay ma Tibbets a hoehold name and earned him a Distguished Service Cross but his ntributn to the succs of the missn went much further than jt pilotg the aircraft. Iowa History Daily: On Augt 6, 1945, Pl Tibbets, formerly of Davenport and D Mo, piloted a plane named for his Glidn, Iowa-born mother, Enola Gay, on a missn to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan. And Enola Gay Haggard, Tibbets moved to Davenport when only three years old.

Flyg out of England and Algeria ially, he returned stati to serve as a tt pilot on the B-29 before the ary tabbed him for a top-secret to Wendover Army Air Base Utah, Tibbets started flyg a plane he named for his mother Enola Gay. 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.

PL TIBBETS, PILOT OF THE ENOLA GAY

"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.

CAPTA PL TIBBETS THE ENOLA GAY MUT BEFORE TAKEOFF TO DROP THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA, 1945

"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.

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.

ENOLA GAY BY TIBBETS, SIGNED (38 RULTS)

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 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.

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

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?

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