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.
Contents:
- ON THIS DATE AUGT 6,1945- THE “ENOLA GAY” MAK HISTORY
- ENOLA GAY
- THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
ON THIS DATE AUGT 6,1945- THE “ENOLA GAY” MAK HISTORY
warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the US B-29 Superfortrs “Enola Gay”. 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.
ENOLA GAY
” 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.
THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan.