Controversy over the Enola Gay Exhibn - Nuclear Mm

Contents:

• HIROSHIMA; ENOLA GAY'S CREW RELLS THE FLIGHT INTO A NEW ERA
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• CONTROVERSY OVER THE ENOLA GAY EXHIBN
• ENOLA GAY DAN BOCKSR, DUA PAWAT PEMBAWA BOM ATOM MEMATIKAN

HIROSHIMA; ENOLA GAY'S CREW RELLS THE FLIGHT INTO A NEW ERA

As the navigator aboard the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the bomb, he was five up, over southeastern Japan, wh a clear view of the mhroom terviews last week, Mr.

"The Enola Gay dropped the 8, 900-pound bomb, nicknamed "Ltle Boy, " over Hiroshima at 8:15 A. Tibbets the time the Enola Gay reached Iwo Jima, the sun was g up, a multihued daybreak that stck Mr. 91, two other B-29's that would acpany them, joed the Enola Gay there.

"When the bomb was released, the Enola Gay's nose lurched up, the plane eed of a four-and-a-half-ton weight.

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

' " The bomb fell for 43 explod, a light filled the Enola Gay's b wh an tensy that Mr. "The cloud rose far above the altu of the Enola Gay, now flyg at about 26, 000 feet. M., the Enola Gay touched down at Tian to great fanfare, the plane greeted by "more generals and admirals than I had ever seen one place my life, " Mr.

6 missn, helpg narrate a short documentary on display at the Smhsonian Instutn's Enola Gay van Kirk said he was often asked, given a choice about his role the Hiroshima bombg, would he do aga?

"A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 1, Page 10 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: HIROSHIMA; Enola Gay's Crew Rells The Flight Into a New Era. 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.

CONTROVERSY OVER THE ENOLA GAY EXHIBN

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. After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.

ENOLA GAY DAN BOCKSR, DUA PAWAT PEMBAWA BOM ATOM MEMATIKAN

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.

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