Exhibg the Enola Gay

Contents:

• SMUTNý PříBěH ENOLA GAY, LETADLA, KTERé SVRHLO BOMBU NA HIROšIMU
• HERE’S WHY THE PILOT OF ENOLA GAY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT DROPPG THE FIRST ATOM BOMB
• EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

SMUTNý PříBěH ENOLA GAY, LETADLA, KTERé SVRHLO BOMBU NA HIROšIMU

Boeg B-29 Superfortrs, zvaný Enola Gay, byl bombardér americké armády, svrhl 6. Poetickou přezdívku Enola Gay mu dal pilot Pl Tibbets na počt své mamky.

Enola Gay byl přítomen i při útoku na Nagasaki. Enola Gay startoval i při dhé misi. Na své palubě už bombu nenl, ale letěl jako průzkumné letadlo mapující počasí nad dhé světové válce Enola Gay vzlétl ještě několikrát.

Využívalo jej armádní letectvo během programu atomových zkoušek v Tichomoří. Když se blížilo pasátileté výročí svržení atomových bomb na Japonsko, rozpoutaly se okolo Enola Gay velké spory. After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.

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

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. 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.

The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9,000 signatur of prott. Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay.

EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F. And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name. 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.