Crew of the Enola Gay | Distguished Service Medal | The Amerin Legn

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• THE REAL MEANG BEHD THE NAME ENOLA GAY, THE PLANE THAT DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB
• MOCKSVILLE MAN HELPED LIVER ATOMIC BOMB ON BOARD ENOLA GAY
• CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY
• WHAT BOMB GROUP WAS THE ENOLA GAY ?
• ENOLA GAY: THE BOMBER THAT END WORLD WAR II
• ENOLA GAY: THE MEN, THE MISSN, THE ATOMIC BOMB
• EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• IN 1955 AN AMERIN TV SHOW DID THE UNTHKABLE: IT AMBHED A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR WH AN ENOLA GAY PILOT

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.

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. Origal tail on the Enola Gay B-29, Tian-Pacific War.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

Photo Cred: WikipediaThe Enola Gay was a Boeg B-29 Superfortrs bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Pl Tibbets. Lewis durg the fal stag of World War II, beme the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb Day the Enola Gay Arrived on Tian North Fieldby MSgt William M. So that is exactly what I did not realizg, until fifty-two years later, when gog through some old war photos my Bomb Group Album that I had taken a picture of the Enola Gay the day that arrived on Tian.

The arrow on the vertil f of the Enola Gay was replaced wh the 6th Bomb Group Insignia that nsisted of a black R si a black circle. ”Enola Gay on Tian wh tail markg changed. The terview wh Jim Miller took place at the Boise, Idaho rnn 2018 by Fran and Shirley Bat, newsletter edors, and appeared a subsequent Gay on Tian wh the 6th Bomb Groub.

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 REAL MEANG BEHD THE NAME ENOLA GAY, THE PLANE THAT DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB

The ckp of the B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay. 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.

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.

MOCKSVILLE MAN HELPED LIVER ATOMIC BOMB ON BOARD ENOLA GAY

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.

CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY

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.

WHAT BOMB GROUP WAS THE ENOLA GAY ?

For years after the war, the crew of the Enola Gay never wavered their belief they did what they had to do. However, several plane nam of the World War II-era are known exclively by their name, cludg the famo Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber that was ed to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (via Branni). Yet the Enola Gay, another animate object, had a dark tentn — the vice was schled to drop an atomic bomb on an enemy target.

ENOLA GAY: THE BOMBER THAT END WORLD WAR II

It's important to note that durg the war, not many plan which were mass-produced were given as much fanfare, so the Enola Gay stood out om the pack.

Pilot Pl Tibbets nam Enola Gay.

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

On Augt 5, 1945, the 29-year-old Tibbets formally named his B-29 "Enola Gay" after his mother (née Haggard). The Enola Gay name liv on.

In 1995, the Natnal Air and Space Mm hosted a ntroversial exhib of the Enola Gay to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. The fully reassembled Enola Gay is now on display permanent display at the Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F. After growg up there, Thomas Ferebee served on the Enola Gay flight crew and would ultimately bee the man who pulled the leaver to ploy “Ltle Boy” on Hiroshima on Aug.

In 1945, roughly 100 days before Hiroshima, Ferebee would be asked to serve one of the most secretive missns of the war, as a member of the Enola Gay crew. “[The Enola Gay crew] ma no apologi for the job that they did, ” he said.

EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

Tman, pulled the lever om the Enola Gay’s drop hatch and released “Ltle Boy” onto the unexpected cy below.

The bombg and the Enola Gay crew were to return home and face qutns and cricism for their role the endg of the war. Fifty years after the crew of the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hasteng Japan's surrenr, The Amerin Legn honored Tibbets and his crew wh the Distguished Service Medal.

"There is no doubt my md that many of you who are here today would not be here if hadn't been for the urageo missn of the men of the Enola Gay, " Natnal Commanr William Detweiler told nventn legat. As Enola Gay's pilot, Tibbets said Pearl Harbor was the animatg force for his missn.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

Tibbets named the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, for his mother.

Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb, "Ltle Boy, " was dropped at 8:15 a. For more on the Enola Gay, click here (). The Enola GayLast changed 13 January 2007Enola Gay- The AirplaneMol:Boeg B-29Serial Number:44-86292 Wgspan: 43 m (141 ft 3 ) Length: 30.

2 m (99 ft) Height:9 m (29 ft 7 ) Weight:31, 400 kg (69, 000 lb) empty54, 500 kg (120, 000 lb) fully load Powerplant:Four Wright R-3350-41, 2200 hp each Combat Radi:4670 km (2900 ) Service Ceilg:9710 m (31, 850 feet) Cise Speed:355 km/hr (220 mph) Maximum Speed:588 km/hr (365 mph) Bomb Load:9090 kg (20, 000 lb) Approximate Cost:$782, 000 (1945 dollars)The Enola Gay was built unr a program named "Silverplate" to produce B-29 bombers specially modified for atomic bombg missns. The Enola Gay was part of a send batch of fifteen improved Silverplate bombers built between Febary and June Enola Gay's plete serial number (B-29-45-MO, 45-86292) dited that was a B-29 built at the Mart Omaha plant built block 45, and was orred fisl year 1945.

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

When ployed to the Pacific the Enola Gay was assigned a Victor number, origally No. 82 (Victor 82) Enola Gay arrived on Tian on 6 July 1945. Prr to flyg the first atomic bat missn the Enola Gay flew eight practice missns om Tian, then two nventnal bombg missns over Japan g the 6300 pound "pumpk" high explosive bomb, signed to simulate the characteristics of the Fat Man bomb.

The Enola Gay bombed Kobe on 24 July and Koriyama on 26 July. On 31 July the Enola Gay rried out a practice drop of the Ltle Boy weapon, droppg bomb un L6 which was a plete bomb lackg only the highly enriched uranium to make Enola Gay's Renzvo wh HistoryOne of fifteen "Silverplate" B-29s assigned to the 393rd Bombardment (Very Heavy) Squadron of the 509th Compose Group of the XXI Air Force on Tian Island, the bomber now know as the Enola Gay was signated simply as No.

Tibbets renamed the plane the Enola Gay after his mother, over the objectns of the plane's ual pilot Robert A.