Hiroshima 75th anniversary: Iowan Pl Tibbets flew Enola Gay that dropped A bomb

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ENOLA GAY WAS ONCE A GIRL GLIDN

Enola Gay.

The B-29 known forevermore as the Enola Gay took off at 2:30 a.

ENOLA GAY TIBBETS

The Enola Gay was back the news last week wh the passg of s last-livg crew member, navigator Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, at the age of 93.

All 12 men who flew aboard the Enola Gay that morng are now gone. No matter what webse you vised last week to read of Van Kirk’s ath — and of the Enola Gay’s top-secret missn the wang days of World War II — the ments were always a mix of gratu and horror. The standg-room-only crowd the dorium that day was more terted hearg about the Enola Gay’s takeoff weight and cisg speed on Aug.

But 69 years ago, Enola Gay Tibbets — formerly Enola Gay Haggard — was prumably jt happy to have her son e home after nearly four years of war. I had no ia Enola Gay grew up the area until jt recently, when Jefferson’s Bob Owens, 87, mentned nversatn.

IOWA HISTORY DAILY: AUGT 6 - PL TIBBETS AND ENOLA GAY

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HIROSHIMA 75TH ANNIVERSARY: IOWA PILOT PL TIBBETS FLEW ENOLA GAY THAT DROPPED A BOMB

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