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

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY TIBBETS PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• RARE PHOTOS SURFACE OF ENOLA GAY, BOCKSR
• ENOLA GAY
• TOURG THE SMHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MM’S ENOLA GAY EXHIB
• TAKE A TOUR OF THE ENOLA GAY, THE U.S. PLANE THAT BOMBED HIROSHIMA
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• INSI THE ENOLA GAY
• 69 ENOLA GAY PLANE STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• ENOLA GAY: WE VISED WH THE PLANE THAT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY: THE B-29 AIRPLANE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?
• FILE:ENOLA GAY (PLANE)

ENOLA GAY TIBBETS PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

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 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.

RARE PHOTOS SURFACE OF ENOLA GAY, BOCKSR

Johns took hundreds of photos durg his time the Pacific and managed to photograph the Enola Gay before s famo missn.

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. 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.

ENOLA GAY

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. 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. The ckp: Visors to the Smhsonian Air and Space Mm Chantilly, Virgia, n look down to the ckp of Enola Gay.

TOURG THE SMHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MM’S ENOLA GAY EXHIB

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.

TAKE A TOUR OF THE ENOLA GAY, THE U.S. PLANE THAT BOMBED HIROSHIMA

Bomber Enola Gay dropped the first ever Atomic bomb on the Japane cy of Hiroshima. 13 died last weekHiroshima bombg anniversaryTake a tour of the Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 69 years agoOn Augt 6, 1945 the U. Natnal Air and Space the vio above, the CBC’s Meagan Fzpatrick gets a tour of the Enola Gay at the Steven F.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

(Associated Prs)At the time of s missn, the Enola Gay was among the most sophistited, propeller-driven bombers the sky durg the Send World War, acrdg to the Smhsonian.

Tibbets, Jr., mand of the Superfortrs Enola Gay, dropped a highly enriched uranium, explosn-type, "gun-fired, " atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

The airplane's last flight end on December 2 when the Enola Gay touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. 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.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

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.

INSI THE ENOLA GAY

But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas.

69 ENOLA GAY PLANE STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

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.

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

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. 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 GAY: WE VISED WH THE PLANE THAT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

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.

ENOLA GAY: THE B-29 AIRPLANE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

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.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

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.

WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?

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. 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.

FILE:ENOLA GAY (PLANE)

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.