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Army Air Forces in World War II The advance air echelon of the 509th Composite Group arrives at North Field on Tinian Island; the 509th is scheduled to deliver atomic bomb attacks on Japan; its Commanding Officer is Colonel Paul W Tibbets Jr, a pilot with a distinguished record in the 97th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in Europe and N Africa. Unit moves in Germany: HQ 405th Fighter Group and 509th Fighter Squadron from Kitzingen to Straubing with P-47s; 455th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 323d Bombardment Group (Medium), from Prouvy Airfield, Leon, France to Gablingen with B-26s. Unit moves: HQ IX Air Defense Command from Paris, France to Neustadt, Germany; HQ 97th Combat Bombardment Wing (Light) from Arrancy to Sandricourt, France; HQ 387th Bombardment Group (Medium) from Beek, the Netherlands to Rosieres-en-Santerre, France; HQ 397th Bombardment Group (Medium) from Venlo, the Netherlands to Peronne, France. www.usaaf.net /chron/45/may45.htm

Utah History Encyclopedia The 393rd Bombardment Squadron (B-29) moved to Wendover in September and the 509th Composite Group was activated in December with a strength of l,767 officers and men, including the First Technical Detachment, a team of civilian and military scientists. Wendover was transferred to the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in March 1947 and used by bombardment groups deploying on maneuvers. The program ended in September after three groups, 180 men, had entered training. www.media.utah.edu /UHE/w/WENDOVERARMY.html   (1189 words)

Surprise Postponement - Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey, Commander of the Army Air Forces Group 509th Composite Group History - Copyright 2002 Tibbets/Newhouse - All rights reserved. Roger M. Ramey, Commander of the Army Air Forces Group, reads a San Francisco Headline announcing the surprise shift in dates. Roger M. Ramey, Commander of the Army Air Forces Group www.mphpa.org /OC/Pages/OCP-006.htm   (1189 words)

Army Air Forces in World War II The advance air echelon of the 509th Composite Group arrives at North Field on Tinian Island; the 509th is scheduled to deliver atomic bomb attacks on Japan; its Commanding Officer is Colonel Paul W Tibbets Jr, a pilot with a distinguished record in the 97th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in Europe and N Africa. (Tenth Air Force): Unit moves: 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, from Myitkyina, Burma to Piardoba, India with F-5s; the detachment of the 317th Troop Carrier Squadron (Commando), 2d Air Commando Group, operating from Akyab, Burma with C-47s, to base at Kalaikunda, India. (Tenth Air Force): Unit moves: 83d Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 12th Bombardment Group (Medium), ceases operating from Magwe, Burma with B-25s, and returns to base at Fenny, India; 427th Night Fighter Squadron, Tenth AF, moves from Myitkyina, Burma to Dinjan, India with P-61s (a detachment is operating from Kunming, China). www.usaaf.net /chron/45/may45.htm   (9259 words)

With a Little Boy in the back thebulletin.org The mock bomb's final destination was Wendover, but before giving his fake Little Boy to the museum, Coster-Mullen drove it to the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, for a surprise appearance at a 509th Composite Group reunion. The Wendover Airfield Museum will exhibit the Little Boy replica in a limited-access room beginning in late 2004 as part of a special display on the 509th Composite Group. He enlarged photos of the real Little Boy, taken at different angles, in order to reproduce the finer points--like the correct bolt position on the nose and the location of the pullout wires on top. www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=jf05auer   (937 words)

May.45 The advance air echelon of the 509th Composite Group arrives at North Field on Tinian Island; the 509th is scheduled to deliver atomic bomb attacks on Japan; its Commanding Officer is Colonel Paul W Tibbets Jr, a pilot with a distinguished record in the 97th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in Europe and N Africa. On Celebes Island, B-24s lightly raid Makassar harbor, Sidate Airfield, and Parepare warehouses and bomb Bima Airfield on Soembawa Island, Lesser Sunda Islands. In Borneo, B-25s and P-38s support Australian forces on Tarakan Island, P-38s hit the Miri waterfront on the W coast and Keningau airfield in the N and B-24s bomb the Kuching waterfront on the W coast. paul.rutgers.edu /~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/May.45   (9868 words)

B-29 Superfortress The B-29 was the world's first nuclear delivery vehicle with aircraft from the 393rd Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy) of the 509th Composite Group dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Another B-29 from the 509th (redesignated as a very heavy bomb group) dropped an atomic bomb in the Bikini atomic tests of July 1946. B-29s were the only bomber aircraft assigned to SAC when that command was established in 1946. www.zianet.com /jpage/airforce/weapons/air/b-29.html   (9868 words)

What was the Enola Gay? Paul Tibbets was placed in charge of organizing the 509th Composite Group at Wendover Field, Utah. Ultimately the 509th was the group that delivered the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs in combat. nd.essortment.com /whatwasenolag_rkpe.htm   (1029 words)

20th Air Force/Guam/B-29/Howard Joseph Thompson Jonathan....If he was training to drop a third aomic bomb, the unit would be the 509th Composite Group. I had contact with a gentleman from the 331st Bomb Group, 315th Bomb Wing, Northwest Field, Guam that had a car that was made out of a drop tank (with some modifications, obviously). I have visited that site, however, not knowing the group he was assigned to leaves me still looking at a big sky full of aircraft without a clue... www.armyairforces.com /forum/fb.asp?go=prev&m=70585&viewType=tm   (1029 words)

University of Chicago Magazine, FEB. 95, Class News In 1995, Frederick C. Bock, AB'39, PhD'50, will chair a reunion of the 509th Composite Group, the Army Air Force unit that dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II. Frederick J. Wenzel, MBA'79, is executive director and CEO of Medical Group Management Association in Englewood, CO, and continues to be an adviser to the president of the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, WI. He was chosen 1994 social worker of the year by the Fox Valley (IL) chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. magazine.uchicago.edu /9502/Feb95BOBClassnews.html   (8446 words)

Enola Gay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Enola Gay was assigned to the USAAF's 509th Composite Group and flew the August 6 mission out of Tinian, a large island with several USAAF bases in the Mariana Islands chain. Thus, he selected a plane from his group and renamed the plane after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets (1893–1983, who in turn had been named after the heroine of a novel). Enola Gay became the center of a controversy at the Smithsonian Institution in 1994, when the museum put its fuselage on display as part of an exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enola_Gay   (927 words)

Society Military Aviation Aircraft Bombers B-29 Superfortress Includes section on the 509th Composite Group which has nose art pictures and crew details of 15 aircraft assigned to the Group which was to deliver the atomic bombs to Japan. B-29 Superfortress - Historical materials on the aircraft, it's missions and crews. The B-29 Superfortress - Photos and extended history of the aircraft, including service over Japan and the Enola Gay. www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/Military/Aviation/Aircraft/Bombers/B-29_Superfortress   (341 words)

Untitled Document He was selected for the 509th Composite Group of B-29's secretly assembled in December 1944 under Col. Paul Tibbets, who commanded the Enola Gay. watched the assembly of this man-made meteor during the past two days, and was among the small group of scientists and Army and Navy representatives privileged to be present at the ritual of its loading in the Superfort last night, against a background of threatening black skies torn open at intervals by great lightning flashes. One of these is the great industrial and shipping center of Nagasaki, on the western shore of Kyushu, one of the main islands of the Japanese homeland. home.att.net /~sallyann4/bock.html   (3268 words)

B-29 Bock's Car Charles Sweeney Nagasaki Crew 8x10 Photograph However, on the evening of August 6th, 1945, shortly after the Hiroshima mission, 509th Composite Group Commander Paul Tibbets assigned Major Sweeney to lead the second atomic raid on Japan. Major Charles Sweeney's B-29 Superfortress crew pose for a group photograph. Major Sweeney was originally the pilot of a reconnaissance aircraft the Great Artiste, which carried scientific instrumentation to measure the effects of the nuclear explosions. www.mach1collectibles.com /b_29_bock_s_car_charles_sweeney_nagasaki_crew_8x10_photograph.html   (3268 words)

EAA's Timeless Voices of Aviation Interview List B-29 navigator with the 393rd BS, 509th Composite Group; served as the navigator in the photographic plane on the Hiroshima atomic bomb mission and in the weather plane over Kokura during the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission U.S. Army Air Force pilot during WWII; never assigned to a group or squadron - remained in the stateside pilot pool ferrying airplanes as needed B-17 pilot with the 534th BS, 381st BG, 8th AF during WWII – one of the youngest B-17 pilots of WWII at age 19, and quite possibly the smallest at 5’4” www.timelessvoices.org /faq/interview_list.asp   (8645 words)

3109 It became the nucleus of the 509th Composite Group, the first military unit in the history to drop a nuclear bomb in combat. The Group received a Presidential Unit Citation for this operation and another for the deadly and damaging mission to Yokohama on May 28, 1945.. The 504th, led the 20th Air Force's 313th wing in all Japanese Empire mining operations. www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/3109   (8645 words)

The Bombing of Nagasaki, August 9 1945 The Untold Story The Catholic chaplain for the 509th Composite Group (the 1500 man Army Air Force group whose only job was delivering the atomic bombs) was Father George Zabelka, who several decades later saw his grave theological error in religiously legitimating the mass slaughter that is modern war. However, 250 years later, in the 1850s, after the coercive gunboat diplomacy of Commodore Perry forced open an offshore island for American trade purposes, it was discovered that there were still thousands of baptized Christians in Nagasaki, living their faith in a catacomb existence, completely unknown to the governmentwhich immediately started another purge. It had been 3 days since the first bomb, a uranium bomb, had decimated Hiroshima, with chaos and confusion in Tokyo, where the fascist military government and the Emperor had been searching for months for a way to honorably end the war. www.nuclearfiles.org /etreligiouspers/nagasaki.htm   (8645 words)

PR Newswire : Gen. Paul Tibbets, Commander of the Enola Gay, Joins The National D-Day Museum For the Opening of the Pacific Exhibit on Dec. 7. @ HighBeam Research Gen. Tibbets flew the B-29 Enola Gay to carry out his and the 509th Composite Bomb Group's mission against the Japanese on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Paul Tibbets, Commander of the Enola Gay, Joins The National D-Day Museum For the Opening of the Pacific Exhibit on Dec. 7. PR Newswire : Gen. Paul Tibbets, Commander of the Enola Gay, Joins The National D-Day Museum For the Opening of the Pacific Exhibit on Dec. 7. static.elibrary.com /p/prnewswire/november302001/genpaultibbetscommanderoftheenolagayjoinsthenation/index.html   (328 words)

Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Enola Gay The Enola Gay was assigned to the U.S. Army Air Force's 509th Composite Group and flew the August 6 mission out of Tinian, a small island in the Mariana Islands chain. Enola Gay was a B-29 Superfortress 44-86292 bomber of the U.S. Army Air Force that dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare ("Little Boy"). In 2003, the Enola Gay was once again viewable to the public at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport. www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Enola_Gay   (415 words)

Enola Gay biography .ms The Enola Gay was assigned to the U.S. Army Air Force's 509th Composite Group and flew her mission out of Tinian, a small island in the Marianas chain. The Enola Gay has been fully restored and is currently displayed as a major exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport near Washington, DC. The exhibition of the Enola Gay at the Udvar-Hazy Center, as well as the previous partial presentation in the original Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on the National Mall, has been met with controversy on numerous occasions. enola-gay.biography.ms   (415 words)

Boeing B-29 The AAF assigned 15 Silverplate ships to the 509th Composite Group commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets and he named his personal B-29 "Enola Gay" after his mother. The "Enola Gay," fully restored and completely assembled, is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Enola Gay Exhibition (Forward fuselage was on display at NASM June, 1995- May 1998) www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/boeing_b29.htm   (1335 words)

Hiroshima Survivors Slam US as Atomic Bomber Enola Gay Goes On Show General Paul W. Tibbets, USAF (Ret.), formerly commander of the 509th Composite Group and pilot of the Enola Gay stands before the Enola Gay on display at the National Air and Space Musuem. The Enola Gay, a gleaming sliver B-29 Superfortress bomber goes on public display at a new annex of the National Air and Space Museum, near Dulles airport outside Washington on Monday. "If the Enola Gay is going to be displayed, they should also say what happened beneath the plane on a day the bomb was dropped," said Sunao Tsuboi, who was around a mile (kilometer) from the epicenter of the blast on August 6, 1945. www.commondreams.org /headlines03/1212-15.htm   (671 words)

Enola Gay - Former Exhibition Information There is a history of the 509th Composite Group, including a near-lifesize cutout of the Enola Gay's crew and a photo of mission commander Tibbets wearing the Distinguished Service Cross awarded to him after returning from the Hiroshima mission. The Enola Gay is one of 536 B-29s manufactured at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory in Omaha, Neb. he Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, went on display June 28, 1995 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The display commemorates the end of World War II, as well as the role of the Enola Gay in securing Japanese surrender. www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/gal103/gal103_former.html   (1059 words)

The Enola Gay and the 509th Composite Group The 509th Composite Group was created to plan and execute the deployment of the first atomic bomb. Paul Tibbets headed up that group and flew a B-29 named The Enola Gay in August 1945 and completed the mission that many feel brought a quick end to World War II. We hope you will also visit the Message Forum to join in discussions about the Enola Gay, The Manhattan Project and more. www.enolagay509th.com   (169 words)

Enola Gay - Former Exhibition Information There is a history of the 509th Composite Group, including a near-lifesize cutout of the Enola Gay's crew and a photo of mission commander Tibbets wearing the Distinguished Service Cross awarded to him after returning from the Hiroshima mission. he Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, went on display June 28, 1995 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The display commemorates the end of World War II, as well as the role of the Enola Gay in securing Japanese surrender. The Enola Gay is one of 536 B-29s manufactured at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory in Omaha, Neb. www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/gal103/gal103_former.html   (169 words)

Boeing B-29 The AAF assigned 15 Silverplate ships to the 509th Composite Group commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets and he named his personal B-29 "Enola Gay" after his mother. The "Enola Gay," fully restored and completely assembled, is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Enola Gay Exhibition (Forward fuselage was on display at NASM June, 1995 - May 1998) www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/boeing_b29.htm   (169 words)

Welcome to the 509th Composite Group Note: Charles W. Sweeney was the Airplane Commander on this aircraft for the Nagasaki mission. Note: Paul W. Tibbets was the Airplane Commander for the Hiroshima mission. Note: Wilson and his crew left Tinian on 9 Aug 45 in this aircraft for Wendover to be ready to transport the third atomic bomb. home.att.net /~sallyann4/509.html   (416 words)

Northern Marianas However, long before the B-29’s of the 509th Composite Group could make that fateful flight the Marines of the 2nd and 4th Divisions had to secure the Islands of the Northern Marianas. Most people know Tinian as the island from which the Enola Gay took off from in its mission to drop the atomic bomb which ended the war with Japan and brought the conclusion to the Second World War. www.ww-iiheroes.com /NorthernMarianas.html   (95 words)

Radio Operator Position At the far right is another control panel that is unique to the 509th Composite Group "Silverplate" planes. The HF transmitter was made by the Collins Radio Company, and frequently simply called "The Collins", rather that the ponderous "AN/ART-13" that the Signal Corps assigned to it. Below and to the right of the Collins liaison transmitter is an identical transmitter that was used with the "command" antenna described in the exterior virtual tour. members.cox.net /aaf-radio-2/Enola_Avionics_Descriptions_-_Radio_Op.htm   (95 words)

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