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It’s too bad they couldn’t have forgot how to make them after that bombing, but on the other hand, maybe the bombs are the things that have kept peace this long. I know he saved more Americans lives than he cost the Japanese, and he probably saved Japanese lives when it comes right down to it, because they would have lost a lot more lives in the fighting than they lost in that bombing. They claimed that if we went into Japan, we would have lost millions. Sweeney and his Bock's Car crew dropped the second atomic bomb, 'Fat Man,' on Nagasaki. Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb, 'Little Boy,' was dropped at 8:15 a.m. I’m sure we would have lost an awful lot of men. In the early-morning hours, the cloud cover was minimal over Hiroshima, the primary target. "I think we all agreed with him that he made the right decision of bombing Hiroshima. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. It took two bombs to make the Japanese realize what was going to happen to them." - Mildred Pogue Gardner, Lincoln University of Nebraska student. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. "We knew that the cost of lives was going to be just unreal, that was the justification for it and that was the justification that we had to take too. You’d think it would cure everybody of ever starting a war again, but it hasn’t." - Rose Marie Murphy Christensen, Columbus Grade school student. Toward the end of his life, the Enola Gays pilot, Paul W. It was a terrible, terrible thing, and it’s too bad, but there were a lot of people who got killed in that war. Japan surrendered after a second atomic-bomb attack on the city of Nagasaki three days later, bringing World War II to an end. They started it and they had their chance, and even after we dropped the first one, they didn’t give up, so we had todrop the second one. Visit the Smithsonian website on the Enola Gay. 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. The debate over how the war was won has continued. (23 February 1915 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. Udvar-Hazy Center outside Dulles Airport in northern Virginia. Now, the entire restored plane is displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. But there was so much disagreement over the plane’s mission that the exhibit was closed. The Enola Gay was restored and parts of the plane were put on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum between 19. symbol, in Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbetss words, for the thousands of Ameri. It made its final flight on December 2, 1953, when it was flown to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. The arrival of the Enola Gay, which had borne the first atomic bomb to. flew the plane to Park Ridge, Illinois, a storage site for the Smithsonian Institution. But when Tibbets died at age 92, he requested cremation with no headstone – and no funeral - military honors or not.After her mission, the Enola Gay was returned to the United States in 1946 and stored in Arizona for several years. His grandson is an Air Force Academy graduate who came up flying B-2 Spirit bombers. His family was also a proud military family. He even re-enacted the bombing in a B-29 during a 1976 Texas air show and denounced the Smithsonian’s exhibition of the actual plane when it debuted because of the exhibition’s focus on the suffering of the Japanese people and not the brutality of the Japanese military. Co-Pilot : Captain Theodore Van Kirk : Navigator.
He proudly named his airplane Enola Gay after his beloved mother. Enola Gay Crew Enola Gay Crew back row (L-R) Major Ferebee, Captain Van Kirk, Colonel Tibbets, Captain Lewis. At the time of the Hiroshima bombing, he was one of the youngest but most experienced pilots in the Army Air Forces. It wasn’t that Tibbets wasn’t proud of his service. But instead of being interred at home or at Arlington National Cemetery with all his brothers in arms, he was cremated and his ashes spread across the English Channel. He was the man who dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat against an enemy city. He was never forgotten, however, and never would be. When Paul Tibbets died in January 2007, he had been retired from the Air Force since 1966.