Pilot of Enola Gay Had No Regrets for Hiroshima : NPR

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• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

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

There were three strike plan that flew over Hiroshima that day: the Enola Gay, which rried the bomb, and two observatn plan, the Great Artiste and the Necsary Evil. The Enola Gay rried the weapon, nicknamed "Ltle Boy. Then, the rad went ad: that was the signal om the Enola Gay that the bomb had been released.

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.

HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER

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? On Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortrs bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Toward the end of his life, Enola Gay's pilot was unrepentant sayg they saved "a lot of liv. Early the morng of Augt 6, 1945, a US Air Force B-29 Superfortrs, the Enola Gay, took off om s base Tian, near Guam, and head for the cy of Hiroshima southern was rryg a 9, 700-pound top-secret bomb named Ltle Boy.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

Hiroshima had already been woken by several air-raid sirens that morng, which had proved to be false when the Enola Gay approached at 8:15 a.

The pilot's seat of the Enola Gay moments before takg off for the missn to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The Enola Gay was 10 away when the blast went off, but still felt the shockwav. A bate has raged ever sce over whether the US was right to lnch the have argued that the bombgs were an humane targetg of civilians and that there were other optns ntend that such vastatn was necsary to force Japan's surrenr and avoid a adly ary mpaign through the Japane how did the explosn weigh wh the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day?