Pilot of Enola Gay Had No Regrets for Hiroshima : NPR

Contents:

• PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• PL TIBBETS, PILOT OF THE ENOLA GAY

PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS FOR HIROSHIMA

But once upon a time, you flew a plane lled the Enola Gay over the cy of Hiroshima, Japan, on a Sunday morng – Augt 6 1945 – and a bomb fell. You were the pilot of that Tibbets:Y, I was the Terkel:And the Enola Gay was named after…Pl Tibbets:My mother. She was Enola Gay Haggard before she married my dad, and my dad never supported me wh the flyg – he hated airplan and motorcycl.

I knew right away Iwas gog to get Tom Ferebee [the Enola Gay’s bombardier] and Theodore “Dutch” van Kirk [navigator] and Wyatt Duzenbury [flight engeer] Terkel:Guys you had flown wh Europe? ” That’s their tough luck for beg Terkel:By the way, I fot to say Enola Gay was origally lled “Number 82. Enola Gay Pilot Pl Tibbets, 92, Di.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

A sgle airplane livered the new weapon of mass stctn—the Enola Gay. On permanent display at the Natnal Air and Space Mm’s Udvar-Hazy Center Chantilly, Virgia, the Enola Gay was donated to the Smhsonian Instutn by the U. The ckp of the B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay.

Although missg a few parts, the Enola Gay is now rtored so generatns of Amerins n see the plane that left an lible mark the annals of time.

But you have to be that wh the missn of the Enola Gay, which brgs the dimensn of the role of technology war.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

As lead pilot, he named the Enola Gay after his mother.

As the Enola Gay ma s fal approach to Hiroshima that day, Tibbets ascend to 31, 000 feet, then turned over ntrols to Ferebee. The Enola Gay was then buffeted vlently when stck by two shock wav—one direct and the other reflected om the ground. This was two plan—the Enola Gay and the backup plane.

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

In 1995, a 50th anniversary exhibn of the end of World War II, anized by curators and the director at the Natnal Air and Space Mm and displayg the felage of the Enola Gay, met wh unprecented cricism after veterans groups cricized the exhibn’s script for beg overly sympathetic to the Japane and the mm’s historians for beg misleadg and unpatrtic.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

The Enola Gay was the bt aircraft of s era, but the velopment of that technology me wh a price.

HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB

When the rtored Enola Gay went on permanent display 2003 at the Udvar-Hazy Center, attracted que a b of attentn. The rtored Enola Gay is now on view at the Smhsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center Chantilly, Virgia.

PL TIBBETS, PILOT OF THE ENOLA GAY

For years after the war, the crew of the Enola Gay never wavered their belief they did what they had to do. On Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the cy of Hiroshima. "Colonel Ferebee died Florida 2000, at the age of Air Force radar specialist Jab Ber was the only man who served on both the Enola Gay the Hiroshima bombg missn and the Bock's Car three days later when s crew bombed Nagasaki.

"Stiborik died of a heart attack 1984 at age Jeppson was only 23 years old when he was assigned to acpany the atomic bomb on the Enola Gay.