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• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• ENOLA GAYORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARKTRACK 1 ON ORGANISATN PRODUCED BYMIKE HOWLETT & ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK“ENOLA GAY” IS A SONG BY BRISH SYNTHPOP GROUP ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK. THE ANTI-WAR TRACK WAS RELEASED AS THE ONLY SGLE OM THEIR 1980 ALBUM ORGANISATN AND… READ MORE SEP. 26, 19801 VIEWER60.7K VIEWS50 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]ENOLA GAYYOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT HOME YTERDAYAH-HA, WORDS N'T SCRIBETHE FEELG AND THE WAY YOU LIEDTHE GAM YOU PLAYTHEY'RE GONNA END MORE THAN TEARS SOMEDAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[INSTMENTAL BRIDGE][BRIDGE]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY[INSTMENTAL BREAKDOWN]YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T FA OUR DREAMS AWAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[OUTRO]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY14EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• ENOLA GAY: THE MEN, THE MISSN, THE ATOMIC BOMB
• EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• ENOLA GAY
• ENOLA GAYSOTERTRACK 4 ON JUMPG ALL OVER THE WORLD PRODUCED BYMICHAEL SIMON, JENS THELE & 2 MORENOV. 30, 20071 VIEWER5 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICSFASTER, FASTER, A LTLE B FASTER, THEN LET GOFASTER, FASTER, A LTLE B FASTER, THEN LET GOFASTER, FASTER, A LTLE B FASTER, THEN LET GOFASTER, FASTER, A LTLE B FASTER, THEN LET GOHARDSTYLE, BABYHARDSTYLE, BABYHARD, HARD, HARDSTYLE, BABYHARD, HARD, HARDSTYLE, BABYHARD, HARD, HARDSTYLE, BABYHARDSTYLE, BABYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “ENOLA GAY” BY SOTER?WHEN DID SOTER RELEASE “ENOLA GAY”?WHO WROTE “ENOLA GAY” BY SOTER?JUMPG ALL OVER THE WORLD (2007)SOTER1. THE DEFN2. JUMPG ALL OVER THE WORLD3. THE QUTN IS WHAT IS THE QUTN?4. ENOLA GAY5. NEVERENDG STORY6. AND NO MATCH7. CAMBODIA8. I’M LONELY (ORIGAL ALBUM MIX)9. WHISTLG DAVE10. MARIAN (VERSN)11. LIGHTEN UP THE SKY12. THE HARDRE MASSIVE13. THE GREATT DIFFICULTYEXPAND CREDSPRODUCED BYMICHAEL SIMON, JENS THELE, H. P. BAXXTER & RICK J. JORDANWRTEN BYANDY MCCLKEY & H. P. BAXXTERRELEASE DATENOVEMBER 30, 2007ENOLA GAY INTERPOLATNSENOLA GAY BY ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARKTAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED 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. 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. 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.

ENOLA GAYORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARKTRACK 1 ON ORGANISATN PRODUCED BYMIKE HOWLETT & ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK“ENOLA GAY” IS A SONG BY BRISH SYNTHPOP GROUP ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK. THE ANTI-WAR TRACK WAS RELEASED AS THE ONLY SGLE OM THEIR 1980 ALBUM ORGANISATN AND… READ MORE SEP. 26, 19801 VIEWER60.7K VIEWS50 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]ENOLA GAYYOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT HOME YTERDAYAH-HA, WORDS N'T SCRIBETHE FEELG AND THE WAY YOU LIEDTHE GAM YOU PLAYTHEY'RE GONNA END MORE THAN TEARS SOMEDAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[INSTMENTAL BRIDGE][BRIDGE]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY[INSTMENTAL BREAKDOWN]YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T FA OUR DREAMS AWAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[OUTRO]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY14EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

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. What some don’t know is that the Enola Gay flew that missn, too.

ENOLA GAY: THE MEN, THE MISSN, THE ATOMIC BOMB

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. While no members of the crew that flew the Enola Gay rema to tell s story, the aircraft liv on for visors.

EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

"Enola Gay is a regnized airplane of World War II, and people want to see , " Kney said. "They want to see the spachip Disvery, they want to see the [SR-71] Blackbird, and they want to see the Enola Gay. Songfacts®:The Enola Gay was the Amerin plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima World War II.

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

It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the plane's pilot, Pl Tibbets. Some even thought was a d msage that we were gay.

The most famo and fluential sgle bomber was Enola Gay. "The BBC misperceived "Enola Gay" as beg a homosexual love song and banned on the kids' show Swap Shop. About“Enola Gay” is a song by Brish synthpop group Orchtral Manovr the Dark.

Enola Gay is the name of Brigadier General Pl Tibbets’s mother. The sgle reached ternatnal succs, managg to sell over 5 ln pi and beg one of the band’s signature a qutn about this songAsk a qutn *CredsRelease DateSeptember 26, 1980Songs That Sample Enola GaySongs That Interpolate Enola GayEnola Gay Live PerformancView Enola Gay samplTags. In any se, the Enola Gay wh Tibbet the left seat dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.

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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.

ENOLA GAYSOTERTRACK 4 ON JUMPG ALL OVER THE WORLD PRODUCED BYMICHAEL SIMON, JENS THELE & 2 MORENOV. 30, 20071 VIEWER5 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICSFASTER, FASTER, A LTLE B FASTER, THEN LET GOFASTER, FASTER, A LTLE B FASTER, THEN LET GOFASTER, FASTER, A LTLE B FASTER, THEN LET GOFASTER, FASTER, A LTLE B FASTER, THEN LET GOHARDSTYLE, BABYHARDSTYLE, BABYHARD, HARD, HARDSTYLE, BABYHARD, HARD, HARDSTYLE, BABYHARD, HARD, HARDSTYLE, BABYHARDSTYLE, BABYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “ENOLA GAY” BY SOTER?WHEN DID SOTER RELEASE “ENOLA GAY”?WHO WROTE “ENOLA GAY” BY SOTER?JUMPG ALL OVER THE WORLD (2007)SOTER1. THE DEFN2. JUMPG ALL OVER THE WORLD3. THE QUTN IS WHAT IS THE QUTN?4. ENOLA GAY5. NEVERENDG STORY6. AND NO MATCH7. CAMBODIA8. I’M LONELY (ORIGAL ALBUM MIX)9. WHISTLG DAVE10. MARIAN (VERSN)11. LIGHTEN UP THE SKY12. THE HARDRE MASSIVE13. THE GREATT DIFFICULTYEXPAND CREDSPRODUCED BYMICHAEL SIMON, JENS THELE, H. P. BAXXTER & RICK J. JORDANWRTEN BYANDY MCCLKEY & H. P. BAXXTERRELEASE DATENOVEMBER 30, 2007ENOLA GAY INTERPOLATNSENOLA GAY BY ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARKTAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

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. Boeg B-29 Superfortrs "Enola Gay".

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

The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima.

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. 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.

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.

)This week, memoratns are schled across the untry, wh socially distanced ndlelight vigils and the tollg of bells, and bee of the vid-19, ceremoni and remembranc have moved Enola Gay, the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is seen on display July 29, 2020, at the Steven F. (Matt McCla/The Washgton Post)One of the Enola Gay’s four eng. If this ighteng new weapon worked, the thkg went, would shorten the war, albe at a dreadful st human first the Enola Gay had to get off the ground.

William Parsons, who flew on the missn as the bomb bee of that risk, the 10-foot-long “Ltle Boy” had not yet been was a “gun-type” bomb, one which an explosive charge would fire a “subcril” piece of uranium 235 down a six-foot-long “gun” barrel to a send subcril piece of uranium, acrdg to Thomas and created cril mass and the explosive nuclear cha reactn that would lay waste to four cloth bags of explosive and the tonator would not be serted until the plane was the Enola Gay was now dog 180 mph but was nng out of ground.