It’s too bad they couldn’t have forgot how to make them after that bombing, but on the other hand, maybe the bombs are the things that have kept peace this long. I know he saved more Americans lives than he cost the Japanese, and he probably saved Japanese lives when it comes right down to it, because they would have lost a lot more lives in the fighting than they lost in that bombing. They claimed that if we went into Japan, we would have lost millions. Enola Gay, Hiroshima Mission Strike plane carrying Little Boy atomic bomb. I’m sure we would have lost an awful lot of men. "I think we all agreed with him that he made the right decision of bombing Hiroshima. From the development of the atomic bomb to the horrific aftermath, highlights include dramatic footage taken by the crewmembers themselves. It took two bombs to make the Japanese realize what was going to happen to them." - Mildred Pogue Gardner, Lincoln University of Nebraska student. "We knew that the cost of lives was going to be just unreal, that was the justification for it and that was the justification that we had to take too. You’d think it would cure everybody of ever starting a war again, but it hasn’t." - Rose Marie Murphy Christensen, Columbus Grade school student. 6, 1945, Tibbets' B-29 dropped the nearly five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was a terrible, terrible thing, and it’s too bad, but there were a lot of people who got killed in that war. Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. Captain Robert Lewis co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the.
They started it and they had their chance, and even after we dropped the first one, they didn’t give up, so we had todrop the second one. In August 1945, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and. Visit the Smithsonian website on the Enola Gay. The debate over how the war was won has continued. Theodore Van Kirk, also known as 'Dutch', was 24 when he became the navigator of. Udvar-Hazy Center outside Dulles Airport in northern Virginia. The last surviving member of the US air crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia aged 93. Now, the entire restored plane is displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. But there was so much disagreement over the plane’s mission that the exhibit was closed. The Enola Gay was restored and parts of the plane were put on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum between 19. It made its final flight on December 2, 1953, when it was flown to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. flew the plane to Park Ridge, Illinois, a storage site for the Smithsonian Institution. After her mission, the Enola Gay was returned to the United States in 1946 and stored in Arizona for several years.