Historic Wendover Airfield Mm | Enola Gay Hanger

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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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TOURG THE SMHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MM’S ENOLA GAY EXHIB

This exhibn, cidg wh the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, told the story of the role of the Enola Gay securg Japane surrenr. * enola gay plane museum *

Enola Gay. While this exhib is now closed, Mm specialists ntued to rtore the remag ponents of the airplane, and after an addnal ne years the fully assembled Enola Gay went on permanent display at the Natnal Air and Space Mm’s Steven F. This past exhibn, cidg wh the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, told the story of the role of the Enola Gay securg Japane surrenr.

It ntaed several major ponents of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber ed the atomic missn that stroyed Hiroshima, Japan. A vio prentatn about the Enola Gay's missn clud terviews wh the crew before and after the missn cludg missn pilot Col. Another portn of the exhib tailed the pastakg efforts of Smhsonian aircraft rtoratn specialists who had spent more than a rtorg parts of the Enola Gay for this exhibn.

Boeg B-29 Superfortrs "Enola Gay".

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Frequently Asked Qutns Regardg Exhibn of B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay. The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. 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.

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