Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 92, Di : NPR

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• ENOLA GAY PILOT PL TIBBETS, 92, DI
• IN 1955 AN AMERIN TV SHOW DID THE UNTHKABLE: IT AMBHED A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR WH AN ENOLA GAY PILOT
• THE REAL MEANG BEHD THE NAME ENOLA GAY, THE PLANE THAT DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY: PILOT’S-EYE VIEW
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• ENOLA GAY LOGBOOK RERDG FIRST A-BOMB SELLS FOR OVER $500K AT CTN
• ENOLA GAY -PILOT DI
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY

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.

PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE 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. 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. He was makg a tour of the untry to promote a patg of the famed B-29 named Enola Gay on s historic missn. Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 92, Di.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

Pl Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday at his home Columb, Oh after sufferg a number of health problems. 6, 1945, when Tibbets flew the B-29 bomber Enola Gay over the Japane cy of Hiroshima and released a 10, 000-pound atomic bomb dubbed "Ltle Boy.

Tibbets aga fend the bombg 1995, when an outcry epted over a planned 50th anniversary exhib of the Enola Gay at the Smhsonian Instutn.

Robert Lewis, -pilot and aircraft manr of the Enola Gay — the B-29 bomber that unleashed the first atomic bomb, Ltle Boy, on the cy of Hiroshima on Aug. “He wasn’t horrified by meetg Capta Lewis, the -pilot of the Enola Gay. 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).

ENOLA GAY PILOT PL TIBBETS, 92, DI

Yet the Enola Gay, another animate object, had a dark tentn — the vice was schled to drop an atomic bomb on an enemy target. 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.

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.

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

Lewis wrote shortly after the B-29 he was pilotg, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Not om Lewis’s historic missn clu shock wave lculatns (left) and a drawg of the approach and pe plans of Enola Gay and s two pann aircraft.

This stylized drawg by Enola Gay pilot Robert A. The Enola Gay ss on display today, but took a long road to get there. The Enola Gay, known for droppg the first atomic bomb, was volved nuclear weapons tts before beg prerved for historil purpos.

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

Controversy surroundg the exhib foced on the balance between Japane sualti and the bomb's role endg the war, sparkg ongog discsns about how to appropriately display and remember the Enola Gay. Followg succsful ttg wh the project, Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortrs bomber, beme famed for droppg the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Augt 1945.

After pletg s Augt 1945 missn, the Enola Gay returned to the Uned Stat and arrived at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexi, November 1945.

ENOLA GAY: PILOT’S-EYE VIEW

The tle was transferred om the ary to the Smhsonian Instutn Augt 1946, and the Enola Gay was removed om the USAF ventory. The Enola Gay's prervatn faced challeng due to a lack of hangar space. Stewart, lobbied for the Enola Gay’s historil rtoratn and display.

Boyne, a former B-52 pilot, beme director of the Natnal Air and Space Mm and prrized the rtoratn of the Enola Gay. The Enola Gay beme the center of ntroversy when the Smhsonian planned to exhib s felage 1995, memoratg the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombg. The display of the Enola Gay aga sparked further ntroversy, wh some argug for a more nuanced prentatn of s history.

HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB

How do you thk the Enola Gay should most appropriately be displayed and remembered?

Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off om the s base Tian, near Guam, and head for the cy of Hiroshima southern Japan. So when Enola Gay approached at 8.

The Enola Gay was 10 away when the blast went off, but still felt the shockwav.

ENOLA GAY LOGBOOK RERDG FIRST A-BOMB SELLS FOR OVER $500K AT CTN

But how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day? The Enola Gay flight log that rerd the world’s first atomic bombg sold at ctn for $543, 000 on Saturday. The sole -flight documentatn of the Amerin bombg of Hiroshima was ma by the Enola Gay’s -pilot Capt.

The B29 plane 'Enola Gay' on the world's first atomic bomb attack that, along wh the nuclear bombg of Nagasaki a week later, precipated Japan's surrenr. Lewis was the actual manr of the Enola Gay although Tibbets was manrdurg the Aug.

ENOLA GAY -PILOT DI

Enola Gay pilot Tibbets, lookg back on his actns on Aug.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

The bomb dropped by the Enola Gay had an explosive power equal to 20, 000 tons of TNT, nsired nceivably enormo at that time.

Lewis traed the crew for the Enola Gay for about a year before the actual bombg, Ms. 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 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.

HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB

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. 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. When the rtored Enola Gay went on permanent display 2003 at the Udvar-Hazy Center, attracted que a b of attentn.

PL TIBBETS: THE MAN WHO PILOTED THE ENOLA GAY

The rtored Enola Gay is now on view at the Smhsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center Chantilly, Virgia. For years after the war, the crew of the Enola Gay never wavered their belief they did what they had to do.