The Enola Gay ( / ɪ ˈ n oʊ l ə ˈ ɡ eɪ /) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line.
Date: 12/28/09 Time: 5:49 AM Charles F. Anderson 394th Bomb Group 584th Bomb Squadron 3 years service Radio Communications college – 1943 – Chanute Field , Illinois .
Enola Gay es el nombre de un avión bombardero Boeing B-29 Superfortress que fue bautizado así en honor a Enola Gay Tibbets, madre de su piloto Paul Tibbets.El 6 de agosto de 1945, durante los últimos compases de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Enola Gay se convirtió en el primer avión en lanzar una bomba atómica, la Little man, que …
The B-29 Superfortress was a long-range heavy bomber with innovative technology and a historic role in the Pacific theater in World War II, …
The B-29 Raid That Ended WWII By J.A. Hitchcock The world believes the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II.The world is wrong. Along with the controversial Smithsonian exhibit of the Enola Gay, the subject of bombs during the war was one of the most talked about in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the end of World …
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The Puerto Rico Air National Guard on Thursday named the nine-member crew killed when their WC-130H crashed near Savannah, Ga., …
THE 25 COMBAT MISSIONS OF THE B-17 MEMPHIS BELLE. When America entered the war in Europe flying sorties from English bases, the losses were as high as 82%.
Mission and crew. Bockscar was flown on 9 August 1945, by the crew of another B-29, The Great Artiste, and piloted by Major Charles W. Sweeney, commander of the 393d Bombardment Squadron.
Dieser Artikel behandelt den B-29-Bomber; zur deutschen Heavy-Metal-Band siehe Enola Gay (Band), zum Lied der Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark siehe Enola Gay (Lied).
