Last livg crew member of Enola Gay di Geia at age 93 | Fox News

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• LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93
• WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?
• PL W. TIBBETS JR., PILOT OF ENOLA GAY, DI AT 92
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93

After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 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.

But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas. The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott. Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay.

WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?

Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.

And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name. FILE: The crew of US Air Force "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortrs bomber that livered the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

PL W. TIBBETS JR., PILOT OF ENOLA GAY, DI AT 92

He was 24 years old when he served as navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the first atomic bomb ployed wartime over the Japane cy of Hiroshima on Aug.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

970 Boeg B-29 bombers ever built, Enola Gay is perhaps the most well-known.