• Aircraft:

  Boeing B-29 Superfortress

• Reg: 44-86292 photos
• Serial #:

  82

• Airline: United States - US Army Air Force (USAAF)
• Photo Date: Jun 05, 2016
• Uploaded: Jul 16, 2020
• Other Location - NASM Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, USA - Virginia

“Enola Gay” of the 509th Composite Group on display at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. On Aug. 5, 1945 Col. Paul W. Tibbets ordered the name of his mother painted on at Tinian. On Aug. 6 at 8:15 a.m. she dropped the first atomic weapon on Hiroshima and later flew on Op. Crossroads. Due to deterioration from storage outdoors, restoration by NASM lasted almost two decades. As part of the Silverplate conversion to save weight, the nose section is devoid of the upper gun turret.

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Francisco Muro 44-86292

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Del/14/06/1945 "Enola Gay, 82" On 06/08/1945 Dropped Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima,Preserved at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F

Andre DuPont (MAS Aviation Press) 44-86292

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