This exhibn, cidg wh the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, told the story of the role of the Enola Gay securg Japane surrenr.
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THE INLIBLE ENOLA GAY
The Enola Gay, fully rtored and on view at the Smhsonian, left an lible mark * enola gay 2 *
After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.
THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 75 years ago, brgg an end to World War II and makg the Enola Gay one of the most famo B-29s history., * enola gay 2 *
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.
ENOLA GAY: THE MEN, THE MISSN, THE ATOMIC BOMB
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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.