Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target, and stroyed most of the cy. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Pl Warfield Tibbets, Jr.
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ENOLA GAY AND THE URT OF HISTORY
OTIS L. GRAHAM, JR., Review of Newman, Enola Gay and the Court of History, Pacific Historil Review, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Augt 2005), pp. 481-483 * enola gay and the court of history *
Review of Newman, Enola Gay and the Court of History on JSTOR. Newman’s argument centers on the ntroversy that epted around the Natnal Air and Space Mm’s (NASM) exhib of Enola Gay 1995.
Enola Gay and the Court of History is pulsory readg for all those terted the history of the Pacific war, the moraly of war, and the failed NASM exhibn.
Enola Gay /Bomber.
ENOLA GAY AND THE COURT OF HISTORY
Seventy-five years ago, the Uned Stat dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, brgg an end to a long and vastatg World War II and makg the Enola Gay, the B-29 that livered , one of the most famo history. The Enola Gay, known only as No. He handpicked the plane the night before the missn, to the surprise of s crew, and had his mother’s name -- Enola Gay -- pated on s si.
ENOLA GAY
6, 1945, the Enola Gay took off for Hiroshima, an important Japane ary center. It was a moment for which none of the Enola Gay’s crew -- away by then, but still rocked by the blast -- was que prepared. What some don’t know is that the Enola Gay flew that missn, too.