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	Enola Gay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortress bomber of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) that dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare ("Little Boy").
		The Enola Gay was assigned to the USAAF's 509th Composite Group and flew the August 6 mission out of Tinian, a small island in the Mariana Islands chain.
		Enola Gay is also the namesake of a song by American musician Utah Phillips.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enola_Gay (568 words)

	Paul Tibbets - Enola Gay pilot
		Paul Tibbets was born Feb. 23, 1915, son of Enola Gay and Paul Warfield Tibbets in Quincy, Illinois.
		Tibbets' group bivouacked in the "Columbia University district." Tinian was ideal; its 8,500 foot runways were among the longest in the world at the time.
		Tibbets ran into various confrontations, on issues from maintenance to training, stemming in part from the secrecy of the operations.
	www.acepilots.com /usaaf_tibbets.html (3122 words)

	Enola Gay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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").
		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.
		Colonel Paul Tibbets, the plane's pilot, named her after his mother Enola Gay Tibbets (who in turn was named after the heroine of a novel).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Enola-Gay.htm (469 words)

	Enola Gay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		Tibbets named the plane in honor of his mother, Enola Gay, and had the words painted on the side of the plane just before takeoff.
	coe.fgcu.edu /students/fisher/gal103.html (1013 words)

	The Visiting Nurse Association Air Show presents"Legend of Flight" Paul W. Tibbets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tibbets was solely responsible for the organization, training, and command of the world's first nuclear strike force.
		Tibbets announced to the crew that the the plane was carrying the world's first atomic bomb.
		The fully assembled Enola Gay, with a wingspan of 141 feet and a gross weight of 137,500 pounds, was too large and too heavy to be displayed in it's entirety in the museum.
	www.stuartairshow.com /tibbets.html (1076 words)

	Enola Gay
		This shift in approaches to management amidst the turmoil caused by the Enola Gay exhibit and the financial pressures being applied by Congress on the Smithsonian probably exacerbated the problems surrounding the exhibit and made it harder for the staff to adjust to a new style of leadership.
		In terms of the Enola Gay, Lawrence Lipschultz and Kai Bird assert that the collective memory of the good war and the necessity of dropping the bomb were fostered by the United States government.
		In the end, Mayr concludes that the primary cause of the Enola Gay exhibit controversy was a lack of professional museum and political leadership at the Smithsonian and the NASM (p.
	www.si.umich.edu /~rfrost/courses/MatCult/content/Yakel_Enola_Gay.html (11955 words)

	What was the Enola Gay?
		Tibbets first move was to requisition fifteen new B-29s and ordered they be stripped of turrets and all but the tail gunner’s armor plating.
		The Enola Gay’s crew of course included Tibbets as the pilot as well as Co-pilot Capt. Bob Lewis, Bombardier Ferebee, Navigator Van Kirk and 1st Lt. Jacob Beser, radar countermeasures officer.
		Tibbets was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross while the other members of his crew received Air Medals.
	nd.essortment.com /whatwasenolag_rkpe.htm (1029 words)

	Pilot talks about Enola Gay mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tibbets said he did not even confirm the mission to the aircrew until they were en route.
		Tibbets said the reason he revealed the secret before dropping the bomb was to inform his crew on the gravity of their work that day.
		The leadership that Tibbets demonstrated throughout work with the “Manhattan Project” and Enola Gay mission was his better-known contribution to military aviation.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123006251 (940 words)

	Meeting Enola Gay Crew Celebrity Encounter and In Person Autographs
		Tibbets chose to use her name because she had supported his decision to become a pilot.
		Loaded, the Enola Gay weighed 65 tons and carried 7,000 gallons of fuel and a four-ton bomb.
		Colonel Paul Tibbets (pilot), Maj. Thomas Ferebee (bombardier), and Capt. Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk (navigator) were the crewmembers scheduled to appear.
	home.att.net /~ned17/EnolaGayCrew.html (483 words)

	Enola Gay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		July 3, 1949, Enola Gay is formally accepted by the Smithsonian Institution for the National Air Museum.
		July 21, 1961, Enola Gay is moved overland to National Air Museum's storage facility in Suitland, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. December 5, 1984, National Air and Space Museum crews begin restoring Enola Gay.
		November 22, 1994 Forward fuselage of the Enola Gay is moved from Suitland, Maryland to the National Air and Space Museum.
	www.paralumun.com /warenolagay.htm (377 words)

	Paul W. Tibbets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The pilot of the "Enola Gay," Paul Tibbets began his flying career at the age of 12 when he dropped Baby Ruth candy bars from airplanes as an advertising gimmick for Curtiss Candy Company.
		On 6 August 1945, Gen Tibbets flew the "Enola Gay" on the mission that ended the war and changed the course of history.
		Gen Tibbets not only sold the Air Force on the aircraft, tested it, and managed the development program, but also pioneered the concept of a bomber/tanker strike force, the mainstay of today’s air-breathing portion of the nuclear triad.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/82bios/tibbet82.htm (308 words)

	Still no regrets for frail Enola Gay pilot (Col. Paul Tibbets)
		When the Enola Gay, named for Tibbets’ mother, roared down the runway in the predawn of Aug. 6, Tibbets was carrying his favorite smoking pipe, a few cigars and a small cardboard pillbox holding a dozen cyanide capsules, in case the crew had to bail out over enemy territory.
		Tibbets, then 12, was hanging out at his father’s business, Tibbets and Smith Wholesale Confectioners, when a barnstorming pilot entered the offices and announced that he needed an assistant for a bombing mission.
		Tibbets volunteered against the wishes of his father, who already had determined that his son was going to be a doctor.
	209.157.64.200 /focus/f-news/1458133/posts (4527 words)

	Enola Gay Remembered - The Official Website of Ret. General Paul W. Tibbets
		Paul Tibbets was born Feb. 23, 1915, son of Enola Gay and Paul Warfield Tibbets in Quincy, The Tibbets family moved to Florida when Paul was nine.
		Paul Tibbets learned a whole new approach to flying in 1941, when he began to fly the Army's new attack bomber, the A-20.
		Tibbets' group bivouacked in the "Columbia University district." Tinian was ideal; its 8,500 foot
	www.enolagay.org /bio.html (1746 words)

	Enola Gay Remembered - The Official Website of Ret. General Paul W. Tibbets
		Columbus, Ohio (August 6, 2005) - On this occasion, the surviving members of the Enola Gay crew would like the opportunity to issue a joint statement.
		On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima hoping to expedite the end of World War II.
		The surviving members of the Enola Gay crew: Paul W. Tibbets (pilot), Theodore J. "Dutch" Van Kirk (navigator) and Morris R. Jeppson (weapon test officer) have repeatedly and humbly proclaimed that, "The use of the atomic weapon was a necessary moment in history.
	www.enolagay.org (683 words)

	The Legacy of the Enola Gay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Just when we gave a 'sigh of relief' that the Enola Gay had finally found a happy home after decades of wallowing in an ugly hangar, the protesters were back.
		This was demonstrated in the well-known (or, in some circles, "little-known") fiasco surrounding the planned Enola Gay Exhibit at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the events leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima back in 1995.
		We have also included four photos of the Enola Gay as she appeared on Tinian Island in 1945 and four photos depicting the pieces of the Enola Gay that were part of the 1995 exhibit at the Smithsonian.
	www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /ENOLA/enola_legacy.htm (718 words)

	A visit to the Enola Gay's secret training base
		This is the hanger that the Enola Gay occupied.
		In the summer of 1946, Colonel Paul Tibbets and his crew lifted off from here in a B-29 named the Enola Gay on their way to Tinian Island.
		The 509th, Tibbet’s group, was formed December 14, 1944, and had as many as 1,700 members.
	www.outwestnewspaper.com /enolagay.html (683 words)

	JS Online: Pilot recalls A-bomb mission
		Tibbets had practiced the bombing run with his crew for months to prepare for the top-secret mission.
		After releasing the bomb, Tibbets flew the Enola Gay away from Hiroshima and by the time the bomb dubbed "Little Boy" detonated 45 seconds later, the plane was more than 10 miles away.
		Though Tibbets is best known for piloting the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, he also was a decorated pilot who flew 25 B-17 missions in Europe and North Africa.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/jul04/247168.asp (885 words)

	Broadway To Vegas November 30, 2003
		The plane, Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, was one of nearly 4,000 B 29 bombers rushed into production for combat in the Pacific.
		The Enola Gay plane model B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292 is 141 feet long, 100-feet wide, and weighs 131,000 pounds.
		Toplining the exhibit will be the Enola Gay, on display, in one piece for the first time in 43 years.
	www.broadwaytovegas.com /November30,2003.html (4876 words)

	Boeing B-29
		On August 6, 1945, Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., in command of the Superfortress "Enola Gay," dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
		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)

	Enola Gay, Just War, and Mass Murder, by Scott McPherson
		But the most historical aircraft to be found there – and certainly the most controversial – is the Enola Gay, the massive B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.
		The point here is that the Enola Gay's mission was not consistent with a "just war" policy.
		Enola Gay played a major part in the two darkest days of the U.S. government's history – a tool of mass murder in an otherwise just war.
	www.antiwar.com /orig2/mcpherson2.html (2082 words)

	B-29 , ENOLA GAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Instantly, Colonel Paul Tibbets executed the well-practiced, evasive maneuver calculated to put a safe distance between his crew of twelve and the unknown effects of the blast.
		Bob Caron, the tail gunner on the Enola Gay on 6 Aug 45 when the B-29 dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, was one of the few...Fire of a Thousand Suns is not just a recounting of the Enola Gay mission.
		It is the story of the development of THAT (the Enola Gay) plane...I most heartily recommend reading (it) to military, active and retired...those around fifty years ago.
	www.homestead.com /tailgunner/B29.html (1839 words)

	"The Enola Gay"
		Enola Gay is flown to Kwajalein Island by Col. Tibbets for
		Enola Gay is retrieved from storage and flown to Orchard Place Army Air Field,
		Enola Gay is formally accepted by the Smithsonian Institution
	members.tripod.com /~DARTO/enolagay.html (351 words)

	Enola Gay - Former Exhibition Information
		The Enola Gay exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum closed on May 18, 1998.
		The "Enola Gay" aircraft will eventually be completely assembled and displayed at the Museum's new Udvar-Hazy Center, scheduled to open in 2003.
		he Enola Gay display includes historical information about the bombing campaign in the Pacific and the events leading up to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic missions.
	www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/gal103/gal103_former.html (1059 words)

	Saipan Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Paul Tibbets, Morris Jeppson, and Theodore Van Kirk said goodbye yesterday, taking with them fond memories of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Battles of Saipan and Tinian.
		Jeppson and Van Kirk made contributions to the CNMI Museum, with Jeppson donating 40 posters detailing the Enola Gay's mission and Van Kirk donating two videotapes of the 1995 historical documentary on the Enola Gay.
		Tibbets also donated several of his books on the Enola Gay to Gov. Juan N. Babauta yesterday morning.
	www.saipantribune.com /archives/newsstoryarch.aspx?newsID=38277&cat=1&archdte=6-19-2004 (370 words)

	The Smithsonian confronts Enola Gay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Big as it is, the museum on the mall in Washington could display only bits and pieces of Enola Gay, the B-29 that carried the "Little Boy" uranium bomb to Hiroshima.
		According to the New York Times, the new exhbit presents Enola Gay without any historical context whatsoever, saying that the B-29 was "the largest and most technologically advanced airplane for its time," without noting that this particular aircraft is the one that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
		Paul Tibbets (shown at left in August 1945) was commander of the 509th Bomb Group, made up of specially modified B-29s and based on Tinian for the express purpose of carrying nuclear weapons to Japan.
	www.warbirdforum.com /enolagay.htm (657 words)

	New York Cool
		An Enola Gay Christmas, written by Doug Field and directed by Dana Snyder, is a riot of a drag queen show.
		June Bug plays Enola Gay Tibbets, the long suffering mother of the bomber of Hiroshima, Paul Tibbets, who named his plane after her.
		Enola has guests, cooks a little in her first generation microwave oven and snorts the occasional line of Coke.
	www.newyorkcool.com /archives/theater_2003_archives.html (7506 words)

	Bomber B-29 Enola Gay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		July 3, 1949 Enola Gay is retrieved from storage and flown to Orchard Place Army Air Field (now O'Hare International Airport) near Chicago by Colonel Tibbets.
		July 21, 1961 Enola Gay is moved overland to National Air Museum's storage facility in Suitland, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Dec. 5, 1984 National Air and Space Museum crews begin restoring Enola Gay.
		22, 1994 Forward fuselage of the Enola Gay is moved from Suitland, Maryland, to the National Air and Space Museum.
	www2.vo.lu /homepages/geko/atom/enola.htm (367 words)

	Alsos
		The authors present the results of 50 hours of interviewing with Col. Paul Tibbets, who flew the historic mission, as well as interviews with each surviving crewmember.
		The book is primarily the story of Paul Tibbets, his years of preparation, his day of glory, and his ensuing demonization, and that of the Japanese who survived the blast.
		The book also examines the military aspects of the Enola Gay mission.
	alsos.wlu.edu /information.asp?id2=384 (108 words)

	Enola Gay Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, rumbled down the the runway at Tinian, the forward American airbase in the...
		Strange Cargo" The "Enola Gay", piloted by Col...
		Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor Terumi Tanaka, 71, protests in front of the Enola Gay.
	www.gayboy.host.sk /porn/boysfirsttime824.html (526 words)

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