The ground crew of the B-29 "Enola Gay" which atom-bombed Hiroshima, Japan. Col. Pl W. Tibbets, the pilot is the center. Photographed on Marianas Islands Guam. The entire Enola Gay's flyg crew on Augt 6, 1945 nsisted of twelve men: Colonel Pl W. Tibbets, Jr. – aircraft manr, Capta Robert A. Lewis – -pilot and Enola Gay's assigned aircraft manr, Major Thomas Ferebee – bombardier, Capta Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk – navigator, U.S. Navy Capta William S. "Deak" Parsons – weaponeer and bomb manr, Litenant Jab Ber – radar untermeasur (also the only man to fly on both nuclear bombg aircraft), Send Litenant Morris R. Jeppson – assistant weaponeer, Technil Sergeant Gee R. "Bob" Caron – tail gunner, Technil Sergeant Wyatt E. Duzenberry, flight engeer, Sergeant Joe S. Stiborik – radar, Sergeant Robert H. Shumard – assistant flight engeer, and Private First Class Richard M. Nelson – rad operator. (UPI Photo/USAF/Fil)
Contents:
- THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
- ENOLA GAY CREW
- TIBBET'S 'ENOLA GAY' CREW
- ENOLA GAY CREW
- CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY
- GROUND CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ATOMIC BOMBER
- ENOLA GAY CREW AUTOGRAPHS, MEMORABILIA & COLLECTIBL
- ENOLA GAY CREW, AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO
- TOURG THE SMHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MM’S ENOLA GAY EXHIB
- HERE'S WHAT THE CREW OF THE B-29 BOMBER ENOLA GAY SAW AFTER DROPPG THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB HISTORY
- RARE PHOTOS SURFACE OF ENOLA GAY, BOCKSR
- INSI THE ENOLA GAY
- ENOLA GAY
- THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
- HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
- THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
- ENOLA GAY CREW
- ENOLA GAY CREW
THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
The crew of the Enola Gay B-29 Superfortrs pos for a photo ont of the bomber the Mariana Islands 1945. The pilot, Army Air Forc Col. Pl W. Tibbets, is the center of the group. * enola gay crew photo *
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. 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.
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The crew of the 'Enola Gay,' Northern Mariana Islands, 1945. From left, standg: Lt Col John Porter, ground matenance officer on B-29 'Enola Gay' which atom bombed hiroshima, Japan; Major Theodore... Get premium, high rolutn news photos at Getty Imag * enola gay crew photo *
"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. The crew of the Enola Gay B-29 Superfortrs pos for a photo ont of the bomber the Mariana Islands 1945. ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialTibbet's 'Enola Gay' CrewThe crew of the 'Enola Gay, ' Northern Mariana Islands, 1945.
From left, standg: Lt Col John Porter, ground matenance officer on B-29 'Enola Gay' which atom bombed hiroshima, Japan; Major Theodore J (Dutch) VanKirk, navigator; Major Thomas W Ferebee, bombadier; Col Pl W Tibbets, 509th Group CO and pilot; Capt Robert A Lewis, -pilot; and Lt Jab Ber, radar untermeasure officer. (Photo by PhotoQut/Getty Imag)The crew of the 'Enola Gay, ' Northern Mariana Islands, 1945. Collectn:Archive PhotosDate created:January 01, 1945Object name:Tibbet's ENOLA GAY file size:5483 x 4231 px (18.
TIBBET'S 'ENOLA GAY' CREW
The ground and flight crew of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' at Tian the Mariana Islands, after the atomic bombg missn on Hiroshima. Get premium, high rolutn news photos at Getty Imag * enola gay crew photo *
ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialAugt 1945: The ground and flight crew of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' at Tian the Mariana Islands, after the atomic bombg missn on Hiroshima. (Photo by MPI/Getty Imag)Augt 1945: The ground and flight crew of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' at Tian the Mariana Islands, after the atomic bombg missn on Hiroshima. 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.
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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. * enola gay crew photo *
"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. Tibbets named the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, for his mother.
CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY
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The entire Enola Gay's flyg crew on Augt 6, 1945 nsisted of twelve men: Colonel Pl W. Lewis – -pilot and Enola Gay's assigned aircraft manr, Major Thomas Ferebee – bombardier, Capta Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk – navigator, U. ENOLA GAY CREW - BOOK SIGNED WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID 286823.
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ENOLA GAY CREW AUTOGRAPHS, MEMORABILIA & COLLECTIBL
Photos of the Enola Gay airplane, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 75 years ago. It's one of the centerpiec of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the annex of the Smhsonian Air and Space Mm Chantilly, Virgia. * enola gay crew photo *
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Bombardier of the Enola Gay. This pany sold a variety of ems om what they lled the "Enola Gay Enterpris and General Pl Tibbets Memorabilia Collectn Sal Catalog, " e.
G., Enola Gay baseball ps, Enola Gay ffee mugs, license plat, plaqu, tographed books, tographed photos, etc. Enola Gay: Today, Enola Gay -- the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- is parked at the Smhsonian Air and Space Mm Chantilly, Virgia. A somber artifact: Jeremy Kney, curator at the Smhsonian Air and Space Mm, stands ont of Enola Gay.
ENOLA GAY CREW, AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO
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. * enola gay crew photo *
The ckp: Visors to the Smhsonian Air and Space Mm Chantilly, Virgia, n look down to the ckp of Enola Gay. Terntental bomber: Enola Gay was signed to be an terntental bomber, one that uld fly om the ntental US to Europe se Bra fell to Nazi Germany.
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.
TOURG THE SMHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MM’S ENOLA GAY EXHIB
Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target, and stroyed most of the cy. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Pl Warfield Tibbets, Jr. * enola gay crew photo *
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.
HERE'S WHAT THE CREW OF THE B-29 BOMBER ENOLA GAY SAW AFTER DROPPG THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB HISTORY
The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 75 years ago, brgg an end to World War II and makg the Enola Gay one of the most famo B-29s history., * enola gay crew photo *
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.
RARE PHOTOS SURFACE OF ENOLA GAY, BOCKSR
Bound for sty and Hiroshima, the Enola Gay rried 12 men, hope, and the power for epic stctn. The silver airplane, named for the pilot’s mother, barely got off the ground that morng wh the world’s first atomic bomb. * enola gay crew photo *
” Enola Gay land back at Tian 12 hours later at approximately 3 pm. Enola Gay tail gunner Bob Caron took this picture of the cloud of smoke billowg 20, 000 feet above Hiroshima after the explosn of the Ltle Boy atomic bomb on Augt 6, 1945.
The history and memory of Enola Gay and s part the atomic attacks on Japan, and their effect on endg the war the Pacific and the nuclear tensns of the Cold War, reflects differg viewpots.
The Smhsonian has been at the center of bat over those differg perspectiv terms of the terpretatn and public display of Enola Gay. Air Force the late 1940s, Enola Gay remaed storage for s.
INSI THE ENOLA GAY
After the Enola Gay beme the first plane to drop an atomic bomb — on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 — the B-29 bomber stayed airborne. * enola gay crew photo *
Enola Gay was to be the central artifact a planned exhibn at the Mm examg the atomic bombgs durg the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Boeg B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay is now on display at the Steven F.
In a revised exhibn, Enola Gay’s forward felage and bomb bay, two eng, a propeller, and other ponents, cludg a activated Ltle Boy bomb, went on display the Natnal Mall Buildg om June 1995 to May 1998.
Udvar-Hazy Center opened December 2003, the fully-assembled Enola Gay went on permanent display the World War II Aviatn display area the Boeg Aviatn Hangar. The display of the Enola Gay has generated a variety of rpons rangg om public protts 1995 and 2003 to opposg pots of view exprsed alternative exhibns, petns, and reports, and ntu to serve as a se study prentg history the public sphere that is vigoroly discsed and bated to this day. Enola Gay on display the Boeg Aviatn Hangar of the Steven F.
ENOLA GAY
The Enola Gay, fully rtored and on view at the Smhsonian, left an lible mark * enola gay crew photo *
The flight of the Enola Gay on Augt 6, 1945, signifi an end and a begng terms of our evolvg unrstandg of technology and warfare the twentieth century. The crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay was among the few to wns the first e of the atomic bomb on Augt 6, had expected somethg fierce, but what they saw was still a fearsome and awome Bs Insir's homepage for more stori.
Shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Augt 6, 1945, the Enola Gay's tail gunner, Bob Caron, wrote his wife that the crew had jt received a medal and she'd be readg about what they had done the newspapers. Pl Tibbets, who named the B-29 the "Enola Gay" after his mother, told Caron to scribe what he saw to the crew over the ter. He was a radarman on the Enola Gay and performed the same duti on would later wre that "No, I feel no sorrow or remorse for whatever small role I played.
Toward the end of the war he photographed the Enola Gay and Bocksr. Johns’ hband Erw was statned the Pacific 1945 and enuntered the two plan that dropped the bombs, the Enola Gay and Bocksr, days before they rried out the missn.
THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
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The Enola Gay was the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Augt 6, 1945.
In the vio Erw said he and the other men statned on Tian were aware the Enola Gay and Bocksr were not beg load wh the typil ordance. Johns took hundreds of photos durg his time the Pacific and managed to photograph the Enola Gay before s famo missn.
HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
For this reason alone, the photos taken by Erw are valuable to historians, but is the pictur of the Enola Gay and Bocksr that are most imprsive. "Of all the World War II aircraft the llectn of the Natnal Air and Space Mm, the most signifint is the Enola Gay. See the gallery below for more imag of the Enola Gay, which are om the book unls otherwise noted.
Army Air Forc accepted the Enola Gay on June 14, 1945, as World War II was g to an end. The staff at Garber began rtorg the Enola Gay 1984.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
In this 1945 image taken on the island of Tian, officers salute each other ont of the Enola Gay as photographers and men look on. Enola Gay crewmembers (om left) Theodore J.
Tibbets (pilot and missn manr) pose the ckp of the Enola Gay at the Natnal Air and Space Mm’s Steven F. 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.
THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
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. 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.
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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.
ENOLA GAY CREW
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. 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.