THE ENOLA GAY • 1995 • 30" x 24" • INV. #14772 • THE ENOLA GAY; hand signed by crew members black k. Photo-stock lor wartime poster of the "Enola Gay." Prt on poster reads "The Natnal Air and Space Mm Smhsonian Instutn, Washgton, D.C. 1995." The poster was created to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first Atomic Bomb dropped at Hiroshima endg WWII. Measurg 30" x 24", the poster ntas the origal signatur of three Enola Gay crewmen: Pl Tibbets (Pilot), Tom Ferebee (Bombardier), Dutch Van Kirk (Navigator), signed boldly black on light tarmac below plane. This poster is listed unr our World War II tegory sce was a WWII event; but the hand signed poster was prted 1995. This "THE ENOLA GAY" is an Origal Poster; is not a reproductn. This poster is NOTnservatn mounted, (len backed). It is excellent ndn. This is an Origal Lhograph Vtage Poster; is not a reproductn. The Vtage Poster has been workg wh llectors around the world helpg them wh their origal vtage poster llectns. Our posters e wh a Certifite of Authenticy. We stand behd the scriptn and ndn of the vtage posters shown on the webse. The Vtage Poster is an IVPDA certified vtage poster aler. Available onle to you 24/7. Consir The Vtage Poster your expert rource for your antique posters. You will be glad you did! We are glad to assist you. Our current ventory is onle and is updated equently. To purchase, simply add the em(s) to your rt and check out. They will be livered to your door. Your satisfactn is guaranteed! #origalposter #vtageposter #vtageposter #EnolaGay #origalposter
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ENOLA GAY
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The Nose Art of Enola Gay and Bockstar. Two of the most famo of B-29 Superfortrs bombers were sent: the first was monly known as Enola Gay, which dropped the “Ltle Boy” atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the send was lled Bocksr.
The ground crew of the B-29 “Enola Gay” which dropped the atomic bomb “Ltle Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan. Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target.
Tman was rmed of the velopment while attendg the Potsdam Conference, and he turn told Soviet lear Joseph Stal that the Uned Stat had “a new weapon of unual stctive force.” On July 26 the Allied lears lled for Japan to unndnally surrenr or face “prompt and utter stctn.” After Japan ignored the mand, the cisn was ma to bomb Hiroshima.At approximately 2:45 am on Augt 6, 1945, Tibbets—who was now a full lonel—and a crew of 11 took off om Tian island rryg a uranium bomb that was known as “Ltle Boy.” The Enola Gay—Tibbets had a matenance man pat that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff—was acpanied by var other plan. Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross. Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan.