Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target, and stroyed most of the cy. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Pl Warfield Tibbets, Jr.
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- HISTORY WARS: THE ENOLA GAY AND OTHER BATTL FOR THE AMERIN PAST
- THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
- DANGER: HISTORIANS AT WORK : HISTORY WARS: THE ENOLA GAY AND OTHER BATTL FOR THE AMERIN PAST.<I> EDED BY EDWARD T. LENTHAL AND TOM ENGELHARDT (METROPOLAN BOOKS: $30, 291 PPS.)</I>
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ENOLA GAY
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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.
HISTORY WARS: THE ENOLA GAY AND OTHER BATTL FOR THE AMERIN PAST
Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949. In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F. SummaryA llectn of says by eight historians addrs the ntroversy at the Smhsonian's Natnal Air and Space Mm the early 1990s over the display of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the close of World War II.
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.
THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
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.
It was a moment for which none of the Enola Gay’s crew -- away by then, but still rocked by the blast -- was que prepared. What some don’t know is that the Enola Gay flew that missn, too. Some fly ahead to check the weather to see what ’s like at the actual target, and Enola Gay was part of that for Nagasaki, " Kney said.
DANGER: HISTORIANS AT WORK : HISTORY WARS: THE ENOLA GAY AND OTHER BATTL FOR THE AMERIN PAST.<I> EDED BY EDWARD T. LENTHAL AND TOM ENGELHARDT (METROPOLAN BOOKS: $30, 291 PPS.)</I>
After the bombgs and the war’s quick end, the Enola Gay remaed wh the Army Air Forc, takg part the Biki Atoll atomic tts before beg shipped to the Smhsonian 1960. The origal patg of the words “Enola Gay” n still be seen on s si. While no members of the crew that flew the Enola Gay rema to tell s story, the aircraft liv on for visors.
HISTORY WARS : THE ENOLA GAY AND OTHER BATTL FOR THE AMERIN PAST
"Enola Gay is a regnized airplane of World War II, and people want to see , " Kney said.