Captain Paul Tibbets, the Enola Gay's pilot, personally selected.
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. Linda Neuman Ezell, letter to Ben Nicks, December 9, 1988, NASM/MH. Boeing Aircraft Company manufactured the plane, and the Glenn L. 5, 1988,” NASM/MH.īen Nicks, letter to Martin Harwit, December 3, 1988, NASM/MH. Nicks, “The Enola Gay: Report to the Ninth Bomb Group Association and Resolution Calling for Its Speedy Restoration and Display,” October 13–16, 1988, NASM/MH.īen Nicks, letter to Martin Harwit, November 3, 1988, NASM/MH.īen Nicks, “ Enola Gay Restoration Committee Report-Nov. Martin Harwit, letter to Ben Nicks, October 14, 1988, NASM/MH.īenjamin A. Nicks,” October 5, 1988, returned with a handwritten note by Bob, and dated the next day, NASM/MH. Witts in Ruin from the Air: The Enola Gays Atomic Mission to Hiroshima. Martin Harwit to Bob Adams, Memorandum on “ Enola Gay letter from Mr. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, to be secretly modified. Linda Neuman Ezell, letter to Ben Nicks, October 6, 1988, NASM/MH. In the end, the Enola Gay played a decisive role in World War II. Mikesh, letter to Ben Nicks, June 24, 1988, NASM/MH.īen Nicks, letter to Jay P. Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
