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In 1949, the Smithsonian Institution assumed control of the plane, and it is now part of the Air and Space Museum. Navigator Theodore Dutch Van Kirk, bombardier Thomas Ferebee and radio operator Richard H. On August 30, 1946, the Enola Gay was placed in storage and never flew another combat mission. Martin Company delivered the plane to the military on May 18, 1945. The United States military kept the Enola Gay in use for only a short period of time. Martin Company assembled it in Omaha, Nebraska, in. Tibbets named the plane after his mother. Boeing Aircraft Company manufactured the plane, and the Glenn L.
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Tibbets was trained in how to turn the plane as fast as possible to get. Captain Parsons, Weaponeer on the Enola Gay, speaks of the many photographs taken of the crew before the trip, generating the atmosphere of a Hollywood. Captain Paul Tibbets, the Enola Gay's pilot, personally selected this plane to drop the atomic bomb. The 13-man crew for the Enola Gay on its historic Hishoma run were as follows: Colonel Paul Tibbetts, pilot and mission commander. At 7:50am the bomb crew were nearing Hiroshima. The plane had a 2,200-horsepower engine, with a maximum speed of 360 miles per hour and a range of 3,250 miles. Martin Company assembled it in Omaha, Nebraska, in early 1945. Boeing Aircraft Company manufactured the plane, and the Glenn L. This atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, along with a second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, prompted the Japanese government to surrender, bringing World War II to an end. 6.On August 6, 1945, the crew of the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. George Zabelka, reportedly the chaplain who blessed the flight crew of the Enola Gay before it took off Aug. According to the wire story, one of the guest speakers was the the Rev. Predictably, he got upset in August 1984 when he read about memorial services commemorating the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Japan. MARIANAS: CREWS.The ground crew of the B-29 Enola Gay which atom-bombed Hiroshima, Japan. He considered his role a small one, but Downey took intense pride in his part in an event that changed the course of history. The couple moved to Mount Dora in 1976 and moved back to Wisconsin last year. "He defended it (dropping the bomb) all the way," said Gladys, his wife of 50 years, when I talked to her recently from their home in Fox Point, Wis. You've just killed 100,000 people and destroyed a city, and (saying) you're happy as the dickens sounds pretty peculiar," Downey said as he showed me old newspaper clippings and wartime photos. "I know everybody was happy as a bird when it was over.