The crew of the Enola Gay
Contents:
- THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
- ENOLA GAY CREW
- LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93
THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
On Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the cy of Hiroshima.
"Colonel Ferebee died Florida 2000, at the age of Air Force radar specialist Jab Ber was the only man who served on both the Enola Gay the Hiroshima bombg missn and the Bock's Car three days later when s crew bombed Nagasaki. "Stiborik died of a heart attack 1984 at age Jeppson was only 23 years old when he was assigned to acpany the atomic bomb on the Enola Gay.
ENOLA GAY CREW
Richard Nelson was the youngt of the Enola Gay crew.
"Nelson died om emphysema 2003 at age Gay tail gunner Bob Caron wrote a book about the missn lled Fire of a Thoand Suns. He was 75 years Duzenbury kept tabs on the Enola Gay's eng and other systems while others tend the bomb and the missn self. "Duzenbury died 1992 at age Shumard assisted flight engeer Wyatt Duzenbury keepg the Enola Gay nng.
He armed the first atomic bomb while the Enola Gay was airborne. He was upset that manr Pl Tibbets had named his plane the Enola Gay. After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.
LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93
The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make.
While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan. In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949.