At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, ntroversy surround the ntext which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.
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EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
* enola gay histoire *
After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.
The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make.
ENOLA GAY
While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan.
In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949. But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas.
ENOLA GAY
The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.