On this occasion, the surviving members of the Enola Gay crew would like the opportunity to issue a joint statement. BBC NEWS | Americas | Enola Gay crew ‘have no regrets’.Tibbets 509th commander and pilot … Four members of the Enola Gay crew had been on Tibbetss B-17 crew in Europe: … The Smithsonian and the Enola Gay: The Crew.TIBBETS The pilot of the Enola Gay signs a commemorative cover for the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII, brought to a swift conclusion by … TIBBETS – HistoryForSale …ĮNOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. The 509th Remembered: A History of the 509th Composite Group by Robert Krauss. Enola Gay Crew | Photographs | Media Gallery ….
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets and the crew of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is recounted in this three-hour movie …
A second A-bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later, and Japan surrendered on August 15. The blast, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, destroyed a four square-mile area, and killing an estimated 70,000 people. Tibbets (1915-2007, born in Quincy, Illinois) was the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, named after Tibbets’ mother, that dropped the first atomic bomb (nicknamed Little Boy) on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. Description ATOMIC BOMB: PAUL TIBBETS Shown posed in uniform in front of the Enola Gay Photograph signed: Paul Tibbets, Pilot/6 Aug.