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Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress, pictured in 1945. The song is named after the Enola Gay, the USAAF B-29 Superfortress bomber that carried Little Boy, the first atomic bomb to be used in an act of war, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, killing more than 100,000 of its citizens.
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Following Thomas Ferebee's death, singer-songwriter Rod MacDonald wrote "The Man Who Dropped The Bomb On Hiroshima," a song directly quoting him from an interview MacDonald did for Newsweek's "Where Are They Now" feature in July 1970. The song, on his album "Recognition," remembers Ferebee as referring to "the one big thing" he'd done, noting ...
But what actually happened was one of the rarest events in the history of the atomic age. A passing U.S. Air Force bomber had accidentally released a (fortunately unloaded) nuclear bomb in transit ...
Mar. 16—The Manhattan Project in New Mexico was front and center in 1945. In nanoseconds, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II changed the nature of warfare ...
The Enola Gay (/ ə ˈ n oʊ l ə /) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare.
U2 has announced what it’s referring to as a “shadow album” with the upcoming release of “How to Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb,” meant to honor the 20th anniversary of the band’s 11th ...
The song "Enola Gay" by British pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is about the B-29 Superfortress bomber that delivered the payload of the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, over Hiroshima, and later flew weather reconnaissance for the second mission days later when Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. The song is anti-war, and questions the ...