Historic Wendover Airfield Mm | Enola Gay Hanger

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• ENOLA GAY HANGAR NAMED ONE OF AMERI’S 11 MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC PLAC
• ENOLA GAY HANGAR
• VIS THE ENOLA GAY AIRFIELD - HISTORIC WENDOVER AIRFIELD

ENOLA GAY HANGAR NAMED ONE OF AMERI’S 11 MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC PLAC

This remote sert landspe was a specialized trag base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews, cludg the 509th Compose Group and B-29 Enola Gay un who rried the atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. See some of the most remarkable ary history Nevada at the Historic Wendover Air Field mm, where you n tour masterfully rtored World War II-era buildgs like the Enola Gay B-29 hangar, atomic bomb loadg ps, and see uniforms, medals, propellers and more. See the B-29 Enola Gay Aircraft Hangar on a Wendover Airfield Tour.

ENOLA GAY HANGAR

Suated ls than a e om Wendover, Utah along the Nevada borr, the origal Wendover Air Force Base was where the Enola Gay crew traed for their missn to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the send World War.

VIS THE ENOLA GAY AIRFIELD - HISTORIC WENDOVER AIRFIELD

Jim Petersen, the man behd the rtoratn of the historic Wendover Airfield, stands the Enola Gay Benson. The pilots, crews and B-29 “Superfortrs” bombers named Enola Gay and Bocksr that dropped the atomic bombs on the Japane ci of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. It was filled mostly wh his md’s eye he saw much more: a thrivg base full of airmen termed to fend the Uned Stat of looked around at a handful of the old base’s buildgs and hangars still standg — cludg the enormo hangar that hoed the Enola Gay and Bocksr — and noted that most of them were one good wd storm om oblivn.

Pl Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay (he named the plane for his mother; the Bocksr was named for s pta, Frerick Bock) buildgs have been rtored, cludg the fire statn, the bombsight storage vlt, and, most importantly, the hangar that hoed those massive B-29s.

Now known as the Enola Gay Hangar, was saved om stctn 2009 when Petersen managed to get the Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn to put the buildg on s list of the untry’s most endangered historic to grants and ntributns that poured , the hangar is now solid workg orr, ready and wag for a B-29 to park there permanently. One of them is the actual Enola Gay, but is showsed at the Natnal Air and Space Mm Steven F.

On April 28, the Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn named the Manhattan Project’s Enola Gay hangar at Wendover Airfield one of Ameri’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Plac. The hangar hoed the “Enola Gay, ” the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb “Ltle Boy” on the cy of Hiroshima. However, the B-29 “Enola Gay” hangar and most of the other important World War II stctur are a cril state of disrepair.

The B-29 bomber that was ed to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was Wendover for a few weeks durg the war, before went to Tian, a base the Pacific Ocean, where was named the Enola Gay. While may or may not have ever been si this hangar, the hangar was dubbed the Enola Gay Hangar by early airport managers, to help promote awarens of the airfield’s e as the primary trag ground for crews that would eventually drop the Fat Man and Ltle Boy bombs on Japan.

The crew of the Enola Gay was one of many who traed here.

The "Enola Gay" hangar is beg rtored. Reviewed June 26, 2019 via mobile Very rmative, lots of history, tells about Enola Gay and the importance of this army base of experience: June 2019 Ask Mobile59885493740 about Historic Wendover Airfield1 Thank Mobile59885493740 This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC.