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Contents:

• ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS
• ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS
• ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS
• ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS
• THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY

ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS

Motocyklový klub Enola Gay MC Highlands vznikl v Čké republice v roce 1993, v místě které je označeno jako Čkomoravská vrchova, spíše známé jako Vysoča. Původní název klubu zněl Enola Gay Devils Sons, k němu také náležela první klubovna ve vnici Podolí nedaleko Nového Města na Moravě. 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.

ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS

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

ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS

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.

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

ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS

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.

THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

For years after the war, the crew of the Enola Gay never wavered their belief they did what they had to do.

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.

HOW I WROTE ‘ENOLA GAY’ BY OMD’S ANDY MCCLKEY

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.