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12 de jun. de 2024 · The 4,037kg Little Boy was carried in a B-29 Superfortress piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets, commander of the 509th Operations Group. At 02:45 Tinian time, on August 6, Tibbets and 11 crewmembers took off on the B-29 -- nicknamed “Enola Gay” after Tibbets’ mother -- from Tinian toward Hiroshima.
21 de jun. de 2024 · Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., the commander of the 509th, would pilot the B-29 that would drop the first bomb. His 11-man crew included Maj. Thomas Ferebee as bombardier and Manhattan Project ordnance expert Capt. William (“Deak”) Parsons as weaponeer.
Hace 2 días · The 509th Composite Group was activated on 17 December 1944 at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, under the command of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets. Its 393rd Bombardment Squadron, equipped with Silverplate B-29s, practiced long-distance flights over water and dropped pumpkin bombs.
Hace 2 días · The 4,037kg Little Boy was carried in a B-29 Superfortress piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets, commander of the 509th Operations Group. At 02:45 Tinian time, on August 6, Tibbets and 11 crewmembers took off on the B-29 -- nicknamed “Enola Gay” after Tibbets’ mother -- from Tinian toward Hiroshima.
29 de jun. de 2024 · Colonel Paul W. Tibbets believed that the miss was caused by a miscalculation by the crew. The mystery was never solved. There were other factors that made Able less spectacular than expected.
20 de jun. de 2024 · On the morning of August 6, 1945, a plane piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. It exploded at 8:15 am . As in the test at Alamogordo, the explosion began with a burst of light "brighter than a thousand suns," accompanied by a tremendous blast of sound.
26 de jun. de 2024 · Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets, famous for piloting the Enola Gay during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, gained prominence in the United States after World War II. Despite his widespread acclaim,...
