Bound for sty and Hiroshima, the Enola Gay rried 12 men, hope, and the power for epic stctn. The silver airplane, named for the pilot’s mother, barely got off the ground that morng wh the world’s first atomic bomb.
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HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
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.
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.
The staff at Garber began workg to prerve and rtore Enola Gay December 1984. 18) unveiled the newly reassembled Enola Gay, the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs ed to drop the first atomic bomb bat. Rtoratn work on the Enola Gay began 1984 and volved a total of some 300, 000 staff airplane's forward and aft felage sectns, wgs, landg gear, eng, propellers and vertil stabilizer were brought together for the first time sce 1960 an arduo operatn this sprg and summer the Udvar-Hazy (pronounced OOD-var HAH-zee) Center's aviatn hangar.