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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- ENOLA GAY
- 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>
- HISTORY WARS : THE ENOLA GAY AND OTHER BATTL FOR THE AMERIN PAST
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.
Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.
HISTORY WARS: THE ENOLA GAY AND OTHER BATTL FOR THE AMERIN PAST
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.
THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
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.
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>
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. 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.
HISTORY WARS : THE ENOLA GAY AND OTHER BATTL FOR THE AMERIN PAST
While no members of the crew that flew the Enola Gay rema to tell s story, the aircraft liv on for visors. "Enola Gay is a regnized airplane of World War II, and people want to see , " Kney said. "They want to see the spachip Disvery, they want to see the [SR-71] Blackbird, and they want to see the Enola Gay.
Still, the historic celebratns have kept g--centenari of historic Civil War battlefields were followed by the 1976 bicentennial of the Amerin revolutn, the qucentenary of Columb’ voyage, the 250th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, and on to the 50th anniversari of D-day, V-E day and V-J day that brought World War II to a s tle “History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battl for the Amerin Past” dit, the nflicts over Amerin memoratns have moved to open warfare recently. They were ratcheted up by the furor last year over a projected exhib at the Smhsonian Instutn’s Natnal Air and Space Mm about the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, 51 years ago this week. That’s exactly what happened when the Smhsonian began planng s 1995 exhib wh the Enola Gay as an emblem of both Ameri’s ary might and the unlockg of the atom’s stctive one si were members of the Air Force Assn., posed of retired and active Air Force personnel and their dtrial supporters.
Scholarly bate over Hiroshima and Nagasaki has never stopped--yet what role was this distguished rerd of sober analysis to play an exhib that memorated the 50th anniversary of the Enola Gay’s awome missn? Irate ngrsmen threatened the Smhsonian’s budget, and the stutn’s new secretary, Michael Heyman, formerly chancellor of UC Berkeley, sled back the exhib to the unelaborated display of the Enola Gay’s felage, which the mm had spent lns of dollars spiffg up. Kohn’s “History at Risk: The Case of the Enola Gay” teas out five different historil trends that nverged after the ngrsnal electns of 1994 swept the exhib’s most powerful crics to office.