This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses. The Japanese surrendered nine days later. Little Boy had enough force to wipe out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Enola Gay gradually descended and turned south, arriving in Tinian at 2:58 pm Tinian time. At 9:15 Tinian time, at an altitude of 31,060 feet and an air speed of 200 mph, Van Kirk listed "Bomb Away" in the Position column. The plane gradually gained in altitude until it passed over its target of Hiroshima. The reproduction navigation log documents Van Kirk's notes as they passed landmarks, such as Iwo Jima and Mishima, Japan. Their objective was to drop an atomic bomb, called Little Boy, on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, located some 2,500 km to the northwest. Crew of the Enola Gay, the infamous B-29 plane from which the first atom bomb was dropped.
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b-29 superfortress flying away from the explosion of the atomic bomb. Ex-Kenneth Rendell.Įnola Gay's 12-person crew left their home base at Tinian, in the Northern Mariana Islands, at 2:45 am Tinian time on August 6, 1945. Browse 182 enola gay plane stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Framed behind glass, not examined out of frame. Tibbet's signature is faded, though still visible. Answer (1 of 3): Tibbets coaxed the bomber up to 30,000 feet, before they released bomb, to give it maximum fall time, for them to escape. Supplemented by a schematic showing Enola Gay's route inset at lower right, and Van Kirk's comments about local time, geography, and navigational calculations inset at lower center.
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"Dutch" Van Kirk (1921-2014) as "Theodore J Van Kirk" at right. The actors in this mini-series do a fine job in trying to express the attitudes of WWII flyers and ground crew.
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It was common practice for bomber crews in all the theaters of operation in World War II to name their aircraft after sweet hearts, wives or mothers. Tibbets"at left bombardier Major Tom Ferebee (1918-2000) as "Tom Ferebee" at center and navigator Captain Theodore J. Enola Gay was the name of Colonel Tibbets mother. Reproduction Enola Gay Navigator's Log Signed by 3 Crew Members: Tibbets, Ferebee, & Van KirkĪ color poster reproducing the Augnavigation log of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, signed by three of its crew members: pilot Colonel Paul W.