Boeg B-29 Superfortrs "Enola Gay" | Natnal Air and Space Mm

Contents:

• WRIGHT R-3350: THE UNRAPPRECIATED MCLE BEHD ENOLA GAY, BOCKSR, AND SO MUCH MORE
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY, ENG AND EMP
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

WRIGHT R-3350: THE UNRAPPRECIATED MCLE BEHD ENOLA GAY, BOCKSR, AND SO MUCH MORE

A sgle airplane livered the new weapon of mass stctn—the Enola Gay.

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

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.S. The ckp of the B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay.

ENOLA GAY, ENG AND EMP

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.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

But you have to be that wh the missn of the Enola Gay, which brgs the dimensn of the role of technology war. 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.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

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.