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The bombing changed the course of warfare forever. Forty-three seconds later, after the bomb detonated at 1,890 feet, the city was decimated 71,000 were killed or assumed dead, 68,000 were injured and 60,000 buildings were destroyed. At 17 seconds past 8:15 a.m., Little Boy, a 9,000-pound uranium-235 core-fissionable atomic bomb was released over Hiroshima, Japan. NELSON was the radio operator on the historic flight that lifted off from Tinian Island at 2:45 A.M. VAN KIRK was the navigator, 2nd Lieutenant MORRIS JEPPSON (1923-2010) was Weapon Test Officer and armed the bomb during the flight, Lieutenant JACOB BESER was radar counter measures (RCM) observer, Staff Sergeant GEORGE R.
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FEREBEE was the bombardier, Captain THEODORE J. The Enola Gay, a modified B-29, dropped the world’s first atomic bomb used in war. Jeppson/Weapon Test Officer/Enola Gay, Hiroshima 6 Aug. He also signed this photo with the name of the bomber and the first use of the atomic bomb in warfare: Enola Gay, Hiroshima 6 Aug. In 1949, the Smithsonian Institution assumed control of the plane, and it is now part of the Air and Space Museum.Description ENOLA GAY CREW: MORRIS JEPPSON Color photo of the Enola Gay, signed Morris R. On August 30, 1946, the Enola Gay was placed in storage and never flew another combat mission. Martin Company delivered the plane to the military on May 18, 1945. The United States military kept the Enola Gay in use for only a short period of time. Tibbets named the plane after his mother. Captain Paul Tibbets, the Enola Gay's pilot, personally selected this plane to drop the atomic bomb. The plane had a 2,200-horsepower engine, with a maximum speed of 360 miles per hour and a range of 3,250 miles. Martin Company assembled it in Omaha, Nebraska, in early 1945. Boeing Aircraft Company manufactured the plane, and the Glenn L. This atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, along with a second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, prompted the Japanese government to surrender, bringing World War II to an end.
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On August 6, 1945, the crew of the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.