How I wrote 'Enola Gay' by OMD's Andy McClkey – Songwrg Magaze

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. 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.

ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS

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. 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.

ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS

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.

ENOLA GAY MC HIGHLANDS

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

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

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 INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

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. The origal patg of the words “Enola Gay” n still be seen on s si.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

While no members of the crew that flew the Enola Gay rema to tell s story, the aircraft liv on for visors. "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.

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

Such is Enola Gay’s stant appeal, has gone on to sell more than five ln pi.