2/7/2024 0 Comments Enola gay crew nose art![]() “It’s something that it’s a part of history," Jim Peterson, Wendover Army Airbase Museum Director, told FOX13. The plane carrying the first bomb named the Enola Gay was a specially designed B-29 Superfortress that was designed and outfitted at Wendover Army Airbase and overseen by Colonel Paul Tibbits. It and a bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, changed the course of history forever and changed many lives, ultimately killing between 129,000 and 226,000 Japanese citizens. ![]() WENDOVER, Utah - Thursday, August 6 marked 75 years since the devastating events of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, Japan ultimately ending World War II.
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