Hiroshima 75th anniversary: Iowan Pl Tibbets flew Enola Gay that dropped A bomb

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY WAS ONCE A GIRL GLIDN
• ENOLA GAY TIBBETS
• IOWA HISTORY DAILY: AUGT 6 - PL TIBBETS AND ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA 75TH ANNIVERSARY: IOWA PILOT PL TIBBETS FLEW ENOLA GAY THAT DROPPED A BOMB

ENOLA GAY WAS ONCE A GIRL GLIDN

Enola Gay. The B-29 known forevermore as the Enola Gay took off at 2:30 a.

The Enola Gay was back the news last week wh the passg of s last-livg crew member, navigator Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, at the age of 93. All 12 men who flew aboard the Enola Gay that morng are now gone. No matter what webse you vised last week to read of Van Kirk’s ath — and of the Enola Gay’s top-secret missn the wang days of World War II — the ments were always a mix of gratu and horror.

The standg-room-only crowd the dorium that day was more terted hearg about the Enola Gay’s takeoff weight and cisg speed on Aug. But 69 years ago, Enola Gay Tibbets — formerly Enola Gay Haggard — was prumably jt happy to have her son e home after nearly four years of war.

ENOLA GAY TIBBETS

I had no ia Enola Gay grew up the area until jt recently, when Jefferson’s Bob Owens, 87, mentned nversatn. Historil rerds matchg Enola Gay Tibbets. About Enola Gay Tibbets.

Enola Gay Tibbets was the dghter of Aled Allen Haggard and Mary Lava Wareham. The Enola Gay, a B-29 Bomber piloted by her son and the first aircraft to drop the atomic bomb, was named after her.

Birth of Enola Gay Tibbets. Death of Enola Gay Tibbets. Baptism of Enola Gay Tibbets????

IOWA HISTORY DAILY: AUGT 6 - PL TIBBETS AND ENOLA GAY

Burial of Enola Gay Tibbets. Iowa History Daily: On Augt 6, 1945, Pl Tibbets, formerly of Davenport and D Mo, piloted a plane named for his Glidn, Iowa-born mother, Enola Gay, on a missn to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan.

HIROSHIMA 75TH ANNIVERSARY: IOWA PILOT PL TIBBETS FLEW ENOLA GAY THAT DROPPED A BOMB

And Enola Gay Haggard, Tibbets moved to Davenport when only three years old.

Flyg out of England and Algeria ially, he returned stati to serve as a tt pilot on the B-29 before the ary tabbed him for a top-secret to Wendover Army Air Base Utah, Tibbets started flyg a plane he named for his mother Enola Gay. 23, 1915, Qucy, Ill., the first child of Pl Warfield Tibbets and his Iowa-born wife, Enola Gay Haggard.

Was 3, the Tibbets fay moved to Davenport, "and a uple of years later, we bought a hoe D Mo, " Tibbets wrote his tobgraphy, "The Tibbets Story, " later tled "The Return of the Enola Gay.