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• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• ENOLA GAY: THE STORY OF THE MOST HISTORIC BOEG B-29
• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

Seventy-five years ago, the Uned Stat dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, brgg an end to a long and vastatg World War II and makg the Enola Gay, the B-29 that livered , one of the most famo history. The Enola Gay, known only as No.

He handpicked the plane the night before the missn, to the surprise of s crew, and had his mother’s name -- Enola Gay -- pated on s si. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay took off for Hiroshima, an important Japane ary center. It was a moment for which none of the Enola Gay’s crew -- away by then, but still rocked by the blast -- was que prepared.

What some don’t know is that the Enola Gay flew that missn, too. Some fly ahead to check the weather to see what ’s like at the actual target, and Enola Gay was part of that for Nagasaki, " Kney said. After the bombgs and the war’s quick end, the Enola Gay remaed wh the Army Air Forc, takg part the Biki Atoll atomic tts before beg shipped to the Smhsonian 1960.

ENOLA GAY: THE STORY OF THE MOST HISTORIC BOEG B-29

The origal patg of the words “Enola Gay” n still be seen on s si. While no members of the crew that flew the Enola Gay rema to tell s story, the aircraft liv on for visors.

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

"Enola Gay is a regnized airplane of World War II, and people want to see , " Kney said. "They want to see the spachip Disvery, they want to see the [SR-71] Blackbird, and they want to see the Enola Gay.

Enola Gay Was a Specially Modified Aircraft for an Unthkable Secret Task. Specially modified to do an unthkable but necsary job, this well-known B-29 was named Enola Gay- the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb. Colonel Tibbets Enola Gay.