Enola Gay | Natnal Air and Space Mm

Contents:

• QUEM FOI E O QUE FOI O ENOLA GAY
• WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• ENOLA GAY
• TRADUç&ATIL;O "ENOLA GAY" EM PORTUGUêS
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

QUEM FOI E O QUE FOI O ENOLA GAY

Hoje vamos falar do Enola Gay, o bombariro B-29 Superfortrs fabrido pela Boeg, que por sua vez, fez parte do Projeto Manhattan, projeto te que serviu pquisa e senvolvimento para a produção das primeiras bombas atômis. Para homenagear sua mãe, Tibbets nomeou a aeronave Enola Gay, mmo nome sua progenora. O Enola Gay também participou da segunda missão juntamente outro B-29, nomeado “Bocksr”, que lançou a segunda bomba atômi (tulada “Fat Man”) sobre Nagasaki.

Além da gran fluência históri, Enola Gay também foi ado o spiração na área da músi. ) pôs a nção “Enola Gay” numa mpanha anti-guerra, lançando s úni sgle em 1980. A músi aborda o bombar atômi Hiroshima durante os tágs fais da II Guerra Mundial e tem referências “Enola Gay” (Boeg B-29) e “Ltle Boy” (a bomba atômi) utilizados na missão.

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

WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?

For famo reasons, only is one of jt 26 Boeg B-29 bombers still existg, but is also the plane that dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima to the effort of the Smhsonian staff members, Enola Gay is on public display today.

It stood for s abandoned, left outsi to the elements, souvenir hunters, and the Enola GayEnola Gay is a Boeg B-29 Superfortrs bomber aircraft manufactured B-29 Superfortrs was a 4-enge, propeller-driven bomber aircraft and was one of the most advanced aircraft World War II. When the B-29 entered service 1944, was one of the largt aircraft all of World War Gay left the assembly le on 18 May 1945 Bellevue, Nebraska, and stayed service until s retirement on 24 July 1946.

It is one of only 65 B-29s built unr the "Silverplate" specifitns, makg them pable of rryg nuclear Enola Gay on Tian the Marianas Islands where took off before bombg Hiroshima Gay beme the first aircraft to drop a nuclear bomb warfare spe s short service life. On 6 Augt 1945, Enola Gay dropped the nuclear bomb Ltle Boy over Hiroshima.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

He had named the bomber after his mother, Enola Gay explosn stroyed about 75% of the cy, killg tens of thoands. Wh the nuclear bomb over Nagasaki three days later, the attacks ultimately end World War Bombg of HiroshimaWhile still on the assembly le, Enola Gay, pilot Pl W.

When livered to the USAF on 18 May 1945, they assigned to 393d Bombardment July 1945, Enola Gay flew eight trag flights and two missns to drop nventnal bombs over Kobe and 5 Augt, Tibett assumed mand of the B-29 and named after his mother. Enola Gay took off om the Northern Mariana Islands on 6 Augt, piloted by Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay wav om the ckp before takg off to Hiroshima on 6 Augt other B-29s rted Enola Gay on the missn and provid measurg and photography equipment. The flight to Japan took about 6 hours, and Enola Gay arrived over Hiroshima clear weather at 32.

As planned, Enola Gay released the "Ltle Boy" bomb at 8:15 am lol Boy took 53 sends to reach tonatn height 600 meters above the cy.

ENOLA GAY

000 people, 30% of the cy's populatn, were Gay returned safely to the Northern Mariana Islands to great applse 12 hours after the war, Enola Gay was a ndidate for the nuclear tt program at the Biki Atolls but was ultimately not selected. Enola Gay did not serve aga and retired 2003, the Enola Gay has been on public display at the Natnal Air and Space Mm Washgton, 1946 the Air Force cid to prerve Enola Gay.

The Air Force gave the aircraft to the Smhsonian Instutn, but they lacked Gay was left outdoors durg s storage as the Air Force had no hangar space available. Enola Gay remaed there for many more the early 1980s, two veterans, Don Rehl and Frank B.

TRADUç&ATIL;O "ENOLA GAY" EM PORTUGUêS

Stewart began lobbyg for the rtoratn of Enola Gay.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

The plane's rtoratn beme a prry 1983 when the mm got a new director, a former Air Force Enola Gay at the Natnal Air and Space Mm Washgton, DC. 000 staff hours of staff shipped Enola Gay piec to the Natnal Air and Space Mm 2003.

ConclnEnola Gay is a Boeg B-29 Superfortrs, the most advanced airplane World War 2. The bomber airplane beme the first to drop a nuclear weapon warfare when the Uned Stat bombed Hiroshima on 6 Augt World War 2, Enola Gay was left outsi for s, exposed to weather, souvenir hunters, and animals. 000 staff hours of work to rtore Enola Gay pletely.

The staff pleted the rtoratn 2003 and put Enola Gay on display at the Natnal Air and Space Mm Washgton, DC, where you n see today. Many veterans had advoted for the display of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs ed to drop the bombs, as a celebratn of Amerin triumph over Japan, but there were already ncerns that the Smhsonian was creatg a polilly rrect, revisnist terpretatn of the events. Harw rigned on May 2, 1995, jt days before he was schled to ttify Senate heargs.On June 28, 1995, an exhibn, simply tled "Enola Gay," opened at the Natnal Air and Space Mm.

Unlike the ncelled exhibn, "Enola Gay" ntaed no terpretatn, no graphic imag, and no melted objects. Only the felage was on display, acpanied by basic facts and rmatn about the plane's rtoratn.The entire Enola Gay bomber is currently on display the "World War II Aviatn" exhibn at the Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.Related RourcCollectns related to the Enola Gay, Smhsonian Instutn ArchivThe Enola Gay: A Natn's, and a Mm's, Dilemma, Edorial by Mart Harw, The Washgton Post, Augt 7, 1994Special Report: The Smhsonian and the Enola Gay, Air Force Associatn, March 15, 1994Smhsonian Cancels Exhib on Atomic Bomb, The Baltimore Sun, January 31, 1995Recent Acquisn - Rerds om Mart Harw, Director, NASM, 1986-1995, The Bigger Picture, Smhsonian Instutn Archiv.

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. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay took off for Hiroshima, an important Japane ary center.