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Enola Gay, flown by Captain George Marquardt's Crew B-10, was the weather reconnaissance aircraft for Kokura, the primary target. [27] Enola Gay reported clear skies over Kokura, [ 28 ] but by the time Bockscar arrived, the city was obscured by smoke from fires from the conventional bombing of Yahata by 224 B-29s the day before.
Robert Alvin Lewis (October 18, 1917 – June 18, 1983) was a United States Army Air Forces officer serving in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.He was the co-pilot and aircraft commander [2] of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
By KATE BRUMBACK ATLANTA (AP) - The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia. Theodore VanKirk, also known as "Dutch," died Monday of natural ...
Enola Gay after Hiroshima mission, entering hardstand The delivery program, codenamed Project Alberta , got underway under Ramsey's direction in October 1943. Starting in November, the Army Air Forces Materiel Command at Wright Field , Ohio, began Silverplate , the codename for the modification of B-29s to carry the bombs.
Enola Gay crew member Jeppson remembers famed flight, Las Vegas Sun, 25 May 2000; Local Veteran Has Place in History, KLAS, 11 November 2003; Eyewitness to Hiroshima, Time, 1 August 2005; The Day the Bomb Dropped, Pahrump Valley Times, 5 August 2005; Sapian Tribune, No Regrets, 6 August 2005
“When it comes to punk, New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason.” These are the words of Terri Hooley, the founder of the landmark 1970s Northern Irish ...
Today's entertainment landscape is full of reboots and revivals of popular brands and shows, like "Scooby-Doo" and "Interview with the Vampire." Queer subtext is something historians and fans ...