UTAH HISTORIANS, WWII VETERANS WANT TO BRING ENOLA GAY HOME TO WENDOVER - Deret News

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• THE ENOLA GAY: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE THE MOJAVE DERT
• UTAH HISTORIANS, WWII VETERANS WANT TO BRING ENOLA GAY HOME TO WENDOVER
• VIS THE ENOLA GAY AIRFIELD - HISTORIC WENDOVER AIRFIELD
• ENOLA GAYUTAH PHILLIPSTRACK 102 ON STARLIGHT ON THE RAILS: A SONGBOOK 1 VIEWER2 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICSLOOK OUT, LOOK OUT OM YOUR SCHOOLROOM WDOWLOOK UP YOUNG CHILDREN OM YOUR PLAYWAVE YOUR HAND AT THE SHG AIRPLANESUCH A BETIFUL SIGHT IS ENOLA GAYIT'S MANY A E OM THE UTAH SERTTO TIAN ISLAND FAR AWAYSTANDG GUARD BY THE BARBED WIRE FENCTHAT HI THE SECRET OF ENOLA GAYHIGH ABOVE THE CLOUDS THE SUNL SILENCESO PEACEFUL HERE, I'D LIKE TO STAYBUT THERE'S MANY A PILOT WHO WOULD SWAP HIS PENSNFOR A CHANCE TO FLY ENOLA GAYWHAT IS THAT SOUND HIGH ABOVE MY CY?I SH OUTSI AND SEARCH THE SKYNOW WE ARE NNG TO FD THE SHELTERTHE AIR RAID SIRENS START TO CRYWHAT WILL I SAY WHEN MY CHILDREN ASK MEWHERE WAS I FLYG UPON THAT DAY?WH TREMBLG VOICE I GAVE THE ORRTO THE BOMBARDIER OF ENOLA GAYLOOK OUT, LOOK OUT OM YOUR SCHOOLROOM WDOWLOOK UP, YOUNG CHILDREN OM YOUR PLAYYOUR BRIGHT YOUNG EY WILL TURN TO ASHIN THE BLDG LIGHT OF ENOLA GAYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEI TURN TO SEE THE FIREBALL RISG"MY GOD, MY GOD" ALL I N SAYI HEAR A VOICE WH ME CRYGMY MOTHER'S NAME WAS ENOLA GAYLOOK OUT, LOOK OUT OM YOUR SCHOOLROOM WDOWLOOK UP, YOUNG CHILDREN OM YOUR PLAY;WHEN YOU SEE THOSE WAR PLAN FLYGEACH ONE IS NAMED ENOLA GAYEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌STARLIGHT ON THE RAILS: A SONGBOOK (2008)UTAH PHILLIPS3. THE TELLG TAK ME HOME5. YUBA CY7. ALL USED UP9. FRIS ROAD11. QUEEN OF THE RAILS13. WABASH CANNONBALL/TOLONO15. WEEPY DON’T KNOW17. FUNERAL TRA19. GREEN ROLLG HILLS OF WT VIRGIA21. PHOEBE SNOW23. HE COM LIKE RA25. THE SOLDIER’S RETURN27. TOUCH ME29. IF I COULD BE THE RA31. STARLIGHT ON THE RAILS33. TALKG NPR BLU35. JOHN D. LEE37. DOG CANYON39. DANCERS41. LOOK FOR ME BUTTE43. THE GOODNIGHT-LOVG TRAIL45. DADDY, WHAT’S A TRA?47. FLY AWAY49. KID’S LIBERATN51. SG THE SPRG53. EDDIE’S SONG55. SHADOW MAKER57. SHE’LL NEVER BE ME59. HOOD RIVER ROLL ON61. STUPID’S SONG63. NEVADA JANE66. ORPHAN TRA68. GOLN MANSNS70. A RAGGED OLD MAN72. COLLIE WILKS (MISSG LYRICS)74. THE MER’S LULLABY (MISSG LYRICS)76. WOLVERE 14 TALKG BLU (MISSG LYRICS)78. I THK OF YOU (MISSG LYRICS)80. A CLEARG THE FORRT (MISSG LYRICS)82. ROCK SALT & NAILS (MISSG LYRICS)84. TWIST AND A POUND (MISSG LYRICS)86. STT’S CREEK BLUFF88. ASH ON THE SEA (MISSG LYRICS)90. THE FAD ROS OF DECEMBER (MISSG LYRICS)92. AC, STRAIGHTS, & FLH (MISSG LYRICS)94. GOG AWAY96. OLD BUDDY, GOODNIGHT98. JSE’S CORRIDO100. PIG HOLLOW102. ENOLA GAY104. LARIMER STREET106. WALKG THROUGH YOUR TOWN IN THE SNOW108. ROOM FOR THE POOR110. TROOPER’S LAMENT112. I WILL NOT OBEY114. A’T IT FE116. KILLG GROUND118. JUDAS RAM120. YELLOW RIBBON122. RICE AND BEANS124. HYMN SONGCREDSTAGSCOUNTRYEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• AHF REMEMBERS ENOLA GAY WEAPONEER DICK JEPPSON
• MORRIS JEPPSON, AIRMAN WHO FLEW ON THE ENOLA GAY, DI AT 87

THE ENOLA GAY: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE THE MOJAVE DERT

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.

UTAH HISTORIANS, WWII VETERANS WANT TO BRING ENOLA GAY HOME TO WENDOVER

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. The hangar where Petersen stands once served the Enola Gay — the plane known as the first aircraft to unleash an atomic bomb warfare — and s crew.

In 2009, the buildg known as the Enola Gay Hangar was add to the Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn’s list of the natn’s most endangered historic plac. Thomas Petersen, historian and board member of the Historic Wendover Airfield Foundatn, left, and Jim Petersen, print and founr of the foundatn, open the doors of the Enola Gay hangar durg a tour ofÊHistoric Wendover Airfield, a World War II-era base that has nearly 100 stctur still remag, Wendover, Utah, on Saturday, May 15, 2021.

Wendover was home to the Enola Gay and the 509th Compose Group, which was tasked wh the operatnal ployment of nuclear weapons. The offer prsed a hot button: In 1995, officials at Washgton’s Natnal Air and Space Mm igned a prott over plans to clu the Enola Gay as part of an exhibn to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. Pl Tibbets and Enola Gay durg a tour ofÊHistoric Wendover Airfield, a World War II-era base that has nearly 100 stctur still remag, Wendover, Utah, on Saturday, May 15, 2021.

VIS THE ENOLA GAY AIRFIELD - HISTORIC WENDOVER AIRFIELD

His father, William Ellsworth Bishop, was a backup flight engeer who worked on the Enola Gay and flew on the plane to Tian Island, where prepared to drop s famo bomb.

One picture shows his mother, stg atop a rock on base drsed her nurse’s uniform, wavg as the Enola Gay lifted off toward Asia and s sty.

ENOLA GAYUTAH PHILLIPSTRACK 102 ON STARLIGHT ON THE RAILS: A SONGBOOK 1 VIEWER2 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICSLOOK OUT, LOOK OUT OM YOUR SCHOOLROOM WDOWLOOK UP YOUNG CHILDREN OM YOUR PLAYWAVE YOUR HAND AT THE SHG AIRPLANESUCH A BETIFUL SIGHT IS ENOLA GAYIT'S MANY A E OM THE UTAH SERTTO TIAN ISLAND FAR AWAYSTANDG GUARD BY THE BARBED WIRE FENCTHAT HI THE SECRET OF ENOLA GAYHIGH ABOVE THE CLOUDS THE SUNL SILENCESO PEACEFUL HERE, I'D LIKE TO STAYBUT THERE'S MANY A PILOT WHO WOULD SWAP HIS PENSNFOR A CHANCE TO FLY ENOLA GAYWHAT IS THAT SOUND HIGH ABOVE MY CY?I SH OUTSI AND SEARCH THE SKYNOW WE ARE NNG TO FD THE SHELTERTHE AIR RAID SIRENS START TO CRYWHAT WILL I SAY WHEN MY CHILDREN ASK MEWHERE WAS I FLYG UPON THAT DAY?WH TREMBLG VOICE I GAVE THE ORRTO THE BOMBARDIER OF ENOLA GAYLOOK OUT, LOOK OUT OM YOUR SCHOOLROOM WDOWLOOK UP, YOUNG CHILDREN OM YOUR PLAYYOUR BRIGHT YOUNG EY WILL TURN TO ASHIN THE BLDG LIGHT OF ENOLA GAYYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEI TURN TO SEE THE FIREBALL RISG"MY GOD, MY GOD" ALL I N SAYI HEAR A VOICE WH ME CRYGMY MOTHER'S NAME WAS ENOLA GAYLOOK OUT, LOOK OUT OM YOUR SCHOOLROOM WDOWLOOK UP, YOUNG CHILDREN OM YOUR PLAY;WHEN YOU SEE THOSE WAR PLAN FLYGEACH ONE IS NAMED ENOLA GAYEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌STARLIGHT ON THE RAILS: A SONGBOOK (2008)UTAH PHILLIPS3. THE TELLG TAK ME HOME5. YUBA CY7. ALL USED UP9. FRIS ROAD11. QUEEN OF THE RAILS13. WABASH CANNONBALL/TOLONO15. WEEPY DON’T KNOW17. FUNERAL TRA19. GREEN ROLLG HILLS OF WT VIRGIA21. PHOEBE SNOW23. HE COM LIKE RA25. THE SOLDIER’S RETURN27. TOUCH ME29. IF I COULD BE THE RA31. STARLIGHT ON THE RAILS33. TALKG NPR BLU35. JOHN D. LEE37. DOG CANYON39. DANCERS41. LOOK FOR ME BUTTE43. THE GOODNIGHT-LOVG TRAIL45. DADDY, WHAT’S A TRA?47. FLY AWAY49. KID’S LIBERATN51. SG THE SPRG53. EDDIE’S SONG55. SHADOW MAKER57. SHE’LL NEVER BE ME59. HOOD RIVER ROLL ON61. STUPID’S SONG63. NEVADA JANE66. ORPHAN TRA68. GOLN MANSNS70. A RAGGED OLD MAN72. COLLIE WILKS (MISSG LYRICS)74. THE MER’S LULLABY (MISSG LYRICS)76. WOLVERE 14 TALKG BLU (MISSG LYRICS)78. I THK OF YOU (MISSG LYRICS)80. A CLEARG THE FORRT (MISSG LYRICS)82. ROCK SALT & NAILS (MISSG LYRICS)84. TWIST AND A POUND (MISSG LYRICS)86. STT’S CREEK BLUFF88. ASH ON THE SEA (MISSG LYRICS)90. THE FAD ROS OF DECEMBER (MISSG LYRICS)92. AC, STRAIGHTS, & FLH (MISSG LYRICS)94. GOG AWAY96. OLD BUDDY, GOODNIGHT98. JSE’S CORRIDO100. PIG HOLLOW102. ENOLA GAY104. LARIMER STREET106. WALKG THROUGH YOUR TOWN IN THE SNOW108. ROOM FOR THE POOR110. TROOPER’S LAMENT112. I WILL NOT OBEY114. A’T IT FE116. KILLG GROUND118. JUDAS RAM120. YELLOW RIBBON122. RICE AND BEANS124. HYMN SONGCREDSTAGSCOUNTRYEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

Pl Tibbets, the pilot on the Enola Gay, which he named after his mother, had allowed Bishop to rry a beloved bicycle to Tian Island. The event, he said, was not to cricize “the crew of the Enola Gay … but regnize their service and heroism.

"I'm imprsed, " says Gat, who liv Park Cy and, for the first time Tuday, vised the historic airfield on the Bonneville Salt Flats 120 wt of Salt Lake and several iends saw the ps where bomb prototyp were load onto the massive plan, the rtored vlts where the then-cuttg-edge Norn bombsights were kept unr wraps and the B-29 hangar that has e to be lled the Enola Gay Hangar. 6, 1945, when they left the Pacific island of Tian the B-29 he had dubbed the Enola Gay (for his mother), bound for, they dropped the world's first atomic bomb, the 9, 700-pound Ltle Boy. The foundatn is raisg money to rtore more Enola Gay Hangar rtoratn project was helped by a $500, 000 natnal parks grant but still needs $700, 000 to remove asbtos and do other old officers club is beg transformed this summer to a buildg that will hoe a new mm (the current mm is a cramped space).

Ralph Gat of Park Cy take a historil tour si the "Enola Gay" hanger at Wendover Airfield. The Enola Gay, piloted by Col.

AHF REMEMBERS ENOLA GAY WEAPONEER DICK JEPPSON

Tour group looks si the "Enola Gay" hanger at Wendover Airfield. (L to R) Bill Coyne, Gulf Shor AL, Gee Uthlt, Hoton, TX, Craig Cooper and Ralph Gat of Park Cy take a historil tour si the "Enola Gay" hanger at Wendover Airfield. The "Enola Gay" hanger at Wendover Airfield still has a strong ame.

Old Army Air Force "Enola Gay" hanger at Wendover Airfield foreground wh the morn sos a e to the north Wendover, UT. The "Enola Gay" hanger at Wendover Airfield still has strong ame.

MORRIS JEPPSON, AIRMAN WHO FLEW ON THE ENOLA GAY, DI AT 87

Air Force, the ground crew of the B-29 "Enola Gay" which bombed Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. Utah historians and World War II veterans would like to see the Enola Gay returned to a place of honor at the Army's old Wendover air base on the Utah-Nevada borr. If they had their way, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima 1945 would fd a home a hangar-turned-mm, perhaps as part of Tooele County's 1996 Utah Centennial was at Wendover where the crew of the Enola Gay traed om October 1944 to June 1945.

The Enola Gay, a space shuttle and other historic aircraft would be hoed there. The elements have left their mark on the Enola Gay's old Wendover hangar, now owned by the cy. Gee Marquardt, a Murray, Utah, veteran who traed at Wendover, also would like to see the Enola Gay e home.