atomic monopoly might offer diplomatic leverage with the Soviets. A Little Boy kódnev bombával a város központját célozták meg és robbanása csaknem az egész települést elpusztította.
A repülgép a gép pilótája, Paul Tibbets ezredes anyja Enola Gay Tibbets után kapta a nevét. augusztus 6-án atombombát dobott Hirosima városára. Robert Lewis, of the 509th Composite Group, from the factory to New Mexico, then to Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Enola Gay volt a neve annak a B29 Superfortress típusú bombázó repülgépnek, mely 1945. Truman and many of his advisers hoped that the U.S. 82 then, was flown by Army Air Forces Capt. Russian armies were occupying most of Eastern Europe. The meeting was marked by recriminations and suspicion between the Americans and Soviets. Truman, Russian leader Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill (before being replaced by Clement Attlee) ended just four days before the bombing of Hiroshima. READ MORE: The Hiroshima Bombing Didn't Just End WWII-It Kick-Started the Cold Warīy August 1945, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had deteriorated badly. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union. First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. Yet this time around there has been no controversy, no agonizing, no recrimination.In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective. A detailed history of the World War II American B-29 Enola Gay, its crew, and the controversial mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. If anything, the massive, death-dealing aircraft probably looks even more intimidating and chilling than it did before, when visitors saw only a part of it. Last Monday the fully restored and assembled Enola Gay - 50-meter wingspan and all - went on display at the Air and Space Museum’s giant new facility at Dulles Airport, outside Washington. Today, although there is no reason to think people feel any less strongly about the issue, a lesson appears to have been learned from that affair about the best way to handle such bitterly clashing perceptions. The name of the plane was Enola Gay, named after the pilots mother. With great expectations, they drove to Silver Hill, in Suitland, Maryland, just outside Washingtons city. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line. Half a century after the war that the bombing had helped to end, emotions still seemed to run so high on both sides that it was impossible to write a script for the exhibit that would satisfy everyone. The bomb exploded about 1,500 feet above the city with a force of 15,000 tons of TNT. They would be able to visit their beloved Enola Gay. Eight years ago, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington mounted an exhibit of the fuselage and bomb bay of the dismembered Enola Gay that proved so controversial it forced the resignation of the museum’s director before the display had even opened. aircrew dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima from a lumbering B-29 that had been nicknamed Enola Gay in honor of the pilot’s mother. The Enola Gay now is on permanent display in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F.