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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- BOEG B-29 SUPERFORTRS "ENOLA GAY"
- BOEG B-29 SUPERFORTRS, ENOLA GAY
- ENOLA GAY
- WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?
BOEG B-29 SUPERFORTRS "ENOLA GAY"
* enola gay boeing b 29 superfortress *
Polished alumum fish overall, standard late-World War II Army Air Forc signia on wgs and aft felage and serial number on vertil f; 509th Compose Group markgs pated black; "Enola Gay" black, block letters on lower left nose. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather rennaissance aircraft that day. Tibbets, Jr., mand of the Superfortrs Enola Gay, dropped a highly enriched uranium, explosn-type, "gun-fired, " atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
BOEG B-29 SUPERFORTRS, ENOLA GAY
He named the B-29 that he flew on 6 Augt Enola Gay after his mother.
Enola Gay is a mol B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292. The airplane's last flight end on December 2 when the Enola Gay touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
ENOLA GAY
The staff at Garber began workg to prerve and rtore Enola Gay December 1984.
WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?
It had the serial number on the vertil f and “Enola Gay” block, black letters on s lower left nose. Three days after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, three B29 aircraft by the nam of Bocksr, Enola Gay and the Great Artiste flew on a missn to drop the 2nd atomic bomb on another Japane cy lled Nagasaki.
The Enola Gay flew as an advance weather rennaissance aircraft. 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.