The Historic Wendover Airfield Mm ris wh the recently rtored John T. Brkman Service Club, and near the Enola Gay hanger. There are several exhibs and memorabilia displays the Historic Wendover Airfield Mm, wh new ems beg add ntually.
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CONTROVERSY OVER THE ENOLA GAY EXHIBN
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This remote sert landspe was a specialized trag base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews, cludg the 509th Compose Group and B-29 Enola Gay un who rried the atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. See some of the most remarkable ary history Nevada at the Historic Wendover Air Field mm, where you n tour masterfully rtored World War II-era buildgs like the Enola Gay B-29 hangar, atomic bomb loadg ps, and see uniforms, medals, propellers and more.
See the B-29 Enola Gay Aircraft Hangar on a Wendover Airfield Tour. Suated ls than a e om Wendover, Utah along the Nevada borr, the origal Wendover Air Force Base was where the Enola Gay crew traed for their missn to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the send World War.
Tibbets, Jr., mand of the Superfortrs Enola Gay, dropped a highly enriched uranium, explosn-type, "gun-fired, " atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather rennaissance aircraft that day.
EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
For the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Natnal Air and Space Mm proposed a ntroversial exhibn that displayed the Enola Gay. * enola gay museum *
He named the B-29 that he flew on 6 Augt Enola Gay after his mother. Enola Gay is a mol B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292. The airplane's last flight end on December 2 when the Enola Gay touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, ntroversy surround the ntext which the Enola Gay was to be displayed. * enola gay museum *
The staff at Garber began workg to prerve and rtore Enola Gay December 1984.