"Enola Gay" is an anti-war song by the Brish synthpop group Orchtral Manovr the Dark (OMD). It was the only sgle om the band's 1980 album,Organisatn. Wrten by Andy McClkey, addrs the atomic bombg of Hiroshima on 6 Augt 1945, durg the fal stag of World War...
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MIC HISTORY #15: "ENOLA GAY"
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Songfacts®:The Enola Gay was the Amerin plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima World War II.
It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the plane's pilot, Pl Tibbets. Some even thought was a d msage that we were gay. The most famo and fluential sgle bomber was Enola Gay.
"The BBC misperceived "Enola Gay" as beg a homosexual love song and banned on the kids' show Swap Shop.
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“Enola Gay”. “The most famo and fluential sgle bomber was Enola Gay. ”In 1980, McClkey and his mil partner Pl Humphreys sred their first h as OMD wh “Enola Gay.
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On Augt 5th, while preparg for the missn, pilot Colonel Pl Tibbets named the B-29 after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets. At 8:15 am on Augt 6th, the Enola Gay dropped the Ltle Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
As Tibbets manvered the Enola Gay away om the blast, the plane was rocked by a seri of shock wav. The radactive fallout om the bomb ed horrific damage for years the years sce, both Tibbets and the Enola Gay have been at the center of var ntroversi. Afterwards, the US ernment ma a formal apology to s missn, the Enola Gay was kept at var air fields, before endg up at Andrews Air Force Base Maryland.
Then 1995, the partially rebuilt Enola Gay was displayed at the Smhsonian’s 50th anniversary exhibn about the Hiroshima bombg.
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Protts ntued, and there was one cint where three people were arrted for throwg ash and human blood on the 2003, the Enola Gay's rtoratn was fally plete.