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.
Contents:
- HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
- THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
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. ” 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. Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.
THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F.