the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland. In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air ...
US Air Force The ground crew and pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima The Enola Gay had flown from the US base on Tinian, in the Mariana Islands, to Hiroshima a few hours ...
An RAF veteran who was one of the first British personnel to witness a flattened Hiroshima and survived two ... first volunteered for the air force aged 18 in 1941, where he served as a wireless ...
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan – Reports of drone sightings at this base south of Hiroshima caused the airfield to temporarily halt military and civilian flights on Sunday evening ...
In 1995, the National Air and Space Museum planned to exhibit items affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, such as victims’ personal effects, along with the Enola Gay B-29 ...