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Contents:

• ENOLA GAY
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• THE ENOLA GAY
• 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. 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.

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

In the early morng hours of Augt 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off om Tian and proceed north by northwt toward Japan.

Hiroshima time, the Enola Gay released “Ltle Boy” over the cy.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

Even though the Enola Gay had already flown 11 and a half away om the target after droppg s payload, was rocked by the blast. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, wav om the ckp before takeoff, Augt 6, 1945. Enola Gay returns after strike at Hiroshima, 1945.

Read the blog post Harry Tman and the Bomb and the not of Capta Robert Lewis, -pilot of the Enola Gay, to learn more about the first atomic aomb.

One the was that sgle Pacific missn that forever altered the urse of history and brought the world to the atomic Kirk, then 24, was the navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped “Ltle Boy” — the world’s first atomic bomb — over the Japane cy of Hiroshima on Aug. The 9, 000-pound bomb fell down toward the cy as the Enola Gay banked away, the crew hopg to pe wh their liv.

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

“The missn self was very easy — went exactly acrdg to plan, ” Van Kirk tch: It wasn’t known whether the bomb would actually work, or if did, whether the bomb’s shockwav would rip the Enola Gay (named after Tibbets’ mother) to crew thought about this after they unload the weapon over Hiroshima. Servicemen, but did not speak publicly about his role as a crew member aboard the Enola Gay, mostly out of ncern for his recent years, Jeppson, now 83, has stepped forward to share his views of the events of 60 years ago.

It was the luck of a toss that put Jeppson on the Enola Gay on Aug. The new Udvar-Hazy Center at the Smhsonian’s Natnal Air and Space Mm was about to open wh the Enola Gay on display. Instead of 12 men on the Enola Gay, people would thk there were only the time, Van Kirk said the missn would not have been a succs whout Parsons and the center opened, mm officials clud a list of all 12 men as part of a display acpanyg the, Jeppson said he has no regrets about beg volved wh the bombg and strsed the natn had been attacked.

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.

THE ENOLA GAY

So when Enola Gay approached at 8. The Enola Gay was 10 away when the blast went off, but still felt the shockwav.

But how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day? Air ForceThe Boeg B-29 Superfortrs, Enola Gay, that rried Ltle Boy.

ENOLA GAY

Wikimedia Commons The crew on Tian Island loads Ltle Boy to the Enola Gay, Augt of 1945.