On Augt 6, 1945, US bomber the Enola Gay lnched the world's first nuclear attack, droppg an atom bomb on the Japane cy of Hiroshima.
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- HERNANDO COUNTY RINT IS LAST SURVIVOR OF ORIGAL <I>ENOLA GAY</I> GROUND CREW
- ENOLA GAY
- HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER
HERNANDO COUNTY RINT IS LAST SURVIVOR OF ORIGAL <I>ENOLA GAY</I> GROUND CREW
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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. Tman was rmed of the velopment while attendg the Potsdam Conference, and he turn told Soviet lear Joseph Stal that the Uned Stat had “a new weapon of unual stctive force.” On July 26 the Allied lears lled for Japan to unndnally surrenr or face “prompt and utter stctn.” After Japan ignored the mand, the cisn was ma to bomb Hiroshima.At approximately 2:45 am on Augt 6, 1945, Tibbets—who was now a full lonel—and a crew of 11 took off om Tian island rryg a uranium bomb that was known as “Ltle Boy.” 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.
ENOLA GAY
Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross.
HERE'S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB SIGNED BY OPPENHEIMER
Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan. Japan officially surrenred on September 2, 1945.The 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.