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Contents:

• ENOLA GAY TIBBETS PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• TOURG THE SMHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MM’S ENOLA GAY EXHIB
• ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• ENOLA GAY: THE B-29 AIRPLANE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• 73 ENOLA GAY BOEG B 29 STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

ENOLA GAY TIBBETS PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

Enola Gay: Today, Enola Gay -- the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- is parked at the Smhsonian Air and Space Mm Chantilly, Virgia. A somber artifact: Jeremy Kney, curator at the Smhsonian Air and Space Mm, stands ont of Enola Gay. The ckp: Visors to the Smhsonian Air and Space Mm Chantilly, Virgia, n look down to the ckp of Enola Gay.

Terntental bomber: Enola Gay was signed to be an terntental bomber, one that uld fly om the ntental US to Europe se Bra fell to Nazi Germany. Tibbets, Jr., mand of the Superfortrs Enola Gay, dropped a highly enriched uranium, explosn-type, "gun-fired," atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

Enola Gay flew as the advance weather rennaissance aircraft that day. He named the B-29 that he flew on 6 Augt Enola Gay after his mother.

TOURG THE SMHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MM’S ENOLA GAY EXHIB

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. The staff at Garber began workg to prerve and rtore Enola Gay December 1984.

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. ” 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.

Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan. Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F. Tibbets Jr., 30, had handpicked the airplane on the assembly le Nebraska three months before and had jt had his mother’s name, “Enola Gay, ” pated black letters on the the plane mbled down the airstrip at over 100 mph, he had his lucky cigarette se wh him one pocket, and a box ntag 12 cyani psul Aug. Two other B-29s, the “Great Artiste” and “Necsary Evil, ” were supposed to go along to take pictur and rerd “Enola Gay” was the “strike ship.

”Fifteen hundred to the north-northwt, unr a wang crcent moon, lay a 400-year-old Japane cy most Amerins probably had never heard of but whose name was about to be etched to the pag of was an important enemy ary se wh a wartime populatn about 280, 000, acrdg to the historians Gordon Thomas and Max half of them were about to be cerated, cshed, and irradiated by the c atomic weapon named “Ltle Boy” that the Enola Gay of thoands more would die the same way at Nagasaki a few days later, and the world would subsequently be hearg about megatons, mutual assured stctn, proliferatn, nuclear wter, meltdowns and dirty would be the start of a ightful era of weapons that uld fy ntrol and menace as “Dimpl Eight Two” picked up speed that morng, s missn was born of s time: liver a blow that the Uned Stat hoped might fally end the global butchery of World War II. )This week, memoratns are schled across the untry, wh socially distanced ndlelight vigils and the tollg of bells, and bee of the vid-19, ceremoni and remembranc have moved Enola Gay, the Boeg B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is seen on display July 29, 2020, at the Steven F.

ENOLA GAY: THE B-29 AIRPLANE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

(Matt McCla/The Washgton Post)One of the Enola Gay’s four eng. If this ighteng new weapon worked, the thkg went, would shorten the war, albe at a dreadful st human first the Enola Gay had to get off the ground.

William Parsons, who flew on the missn as the bomb bee of that risk, the 10-foot-long “Ltle Boy” had not yet been was a “gun-type” bomb, one which an explosive charge would fire a “subcril” piece of uranium 235 down a six-foot-long “gun” barrel to a send subcril piece of uranium, acrdg to Thomas and created cril mass and the explosive nuclear cha reactn that would lay waste to four cloth bags of explosive and the tonator would not be serted until the plane was the Enola Gay was now dog 180 mph but was nng out of ground. (Natnal Archiv)The weapon is hoisted to the bomb bay of the B-29 dubbed “Enola Gay” Augt 1945 on Tian Island the Northern Mariana Islands.

(Natnal Archiv)‘A fiery red re’Thirty-one thoand feet above, the Enola Gay’s bombardier, Maj. So had an ternal radar system that tected the ground, tripped the tonator at that altu, and iated the tonatn bomb traveled for six and explod jt short of the Enola Gay, meanwhile, lurched upward on sheddg the weight of the bomb and executed a hairp turn to pe the expected shock wave of the first, the crew saw and felt nothg.

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

(AP)‘Brighter than the sun’As the Enola Gay and s two rt plan head back Tian, a young scientist named Luis W. B-29 Superfortrs 'Enola Gay' (left); Firtorm-cloud that formed followg the Hiroshima bombg (right).

The plane rryg Pl Tibbets, his crew and most importantly the bomb was a Boeg B-29 Superfortrs named ‘Enola Gay’. Thoands were created, but arguably only one is known by name by the general public – ‘Enola Gay’. Here we look back pictur at the history of ‘Enola Gay’ and s historic missn.

Pl Tibbets wavg om the ‘Enola Gay’s’ ckp before takg off for the bombg of Hiroshima (left); Brigadier General Pl W. The B-29 Bomber was named after Pl Tibbets mother Enola Gay Tibbets, wh whom he had a close relatnship wh.

73 ENOLA GAY BOEG B 29 STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

Full body view of the ‘Enola Gay’Image Cred: US Army, Public doma, via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Ltle Boy’ beg load to ‘Enola Gay’Image Cred: Natnal Mm of the U. ‘Enola Gay’ rried the first atomic bomb ever ed a ary nflict.

Left to right: ‘Big Stk’, ‘The Great Artiste’, ‘Enola Gay’Image Cred: Harold Agnew on Tian Island 1945, Public doma, via Wikimedia Commons.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

The shockwave reached ‘Enola Gay’ though no ser damage was flicted on the aeroplane. ‘Enola Gay’ landg at s baseImage Cred: U. ‘Enola Gay’s’ crew safely land back on the Mariana Islands at 2:58pm, roughly 12 hours after the ial take off.