Hi guys, Did the B-29 Enola Gay have the Circle R or the Circle Arrow on s tail on the day dropped the A-bomb? I know ther a story behd all but I jt nt remember what is. Thanks! Eric
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WHY DID THE ENOLA GAY’S TAIL MARKGS CHANGE?
The Enola Gay, fully rtored and on view at the Smhsonian, left an lible mark * enola gay tail *
The Enola Gay 2003, shortly after movg to the Steven F. Stan Harris of Brighton, Colorado, wr wh a qutn about the Enola Gay, the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Augt 6, 1945. The Enola Gay tail markg was changed om the circle-arrow to circle-R, which was the markg for the 6th Bomb Group, 313th Wg, North Field, Tian.
THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
Krss not that while three B-29s of the 509th did have a square-P tail mark (which stood for the 39th Bomb Group, 314th Wg, North Field, Guam) while on Tian, the Enola Gay was not among them.
The Enola Gay and other 509th bombers also had the last two digs of their serial numbers pated on the nose and on the felage near the tail. The Enola Gay is number 82. It’s possible, Krss says, that the Enola Gay might have had a P on s tail when flew as one of 13 B-29s performg weather and radlogil rennaissance missns Operatn Crossroads, the atomic bomb tts at Biki atoll July 1946, “but not durg s time on Tian.