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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 INLIBLE ENOLA GAY

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. 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.

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