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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.
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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