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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.
ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK – “ENOLA GAY” (1980) (SGL GOG STEADY CLASSIC)
In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F. About“Enola Gay” is a song by Brish synthpop group Orchtral Manovr the Dark.