Enola Gay | B-29 Superfortress | The Boeing Bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb | PART 2/2
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The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the destruction of about three quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target, Nagasaki, being bombed instead.
After the war, the Enola Gay returned to the United States, where it was operated from Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico. In May 1946, it was flown to Kwajalein for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in the Pacific, but was not chosen to make the test drop at Bikini Atoll. Later that year it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, and spent many years parked at air bases exposed to the weather and souvenir hunters, before being disassembled and transported to the Smithsonian's storage facility at Suitland, Maryland, in 1961.
On 5 August 1945, during preparation for the first atomic mission, Tibbets assumed command of the aircraft and named it after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who, in turn, had been named for the heroine of a novel.
In the early morning hours, just prior to the 6 August mission, Tibbets had a young Army Air Forces maintenance man, Private Nelson Miller, paint the name just under the pilot's window. Regularly-assigned aircraft commander Robert Lewis was unhappy to be displaced by Tibbets for this important mission, and became furious when he arrived at the aircraft on the morning of 6 August to see it painted with the now-famous nose art.
Hiroshima was the primary target of the first nuclear bombing mission on 6 August, with Kokura and Nagasaki as alternative targets. Enola Gay, piloted by Tibbets, took off from North Field, in the Northern Mariana Islands, about six hours' flight time from Japan, accompanied by two other B-29s.
Hiroshima mission
Bombardier Thomas Ferebee with the Norden Bombsight on Tinian after the dropping of Little Boy
Enola Gay's crew on 6 August 1945, consisted of 12 men. The crew was:
Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. - pilot and aircraft commander
Captain Robert A. Lewis - co-pilot; Enola Gay's regularly assigned aircraft commander*
Major Thomas Ferebee - bombardier
Captain Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk - navigator
Captain William S. "Deak" Parsons, USN - weaponeer and mission commander.
First Lieutenant Jacob Beser - radar countermeasures (also the only man to fly on both of the nuclear bombing aircraft.[35])
Second Lieutenant Morris R. Jeppson - assistant weaponeer
Staff Sergeant Robert "Bob" Caron - tail gunner*
Staff Sergeant Wyatt E. Duzenbury - flight engineer*
Sergeant Joe S. Stiborik - radar operator*
Sergeant Robert H. Shumard - assistant flight engineer*
Private First Class Richard H. Nelson - VHF radio operator*
Asterisks denote regular crewmen of the Enola Gay.
General characteristics
Crew: 11 (Pilot, Co-pilot, Bombardier, Flight Engineer, Navigator, Radio Operator, Radar Observer, Right Gunner, Left Gunner, Central Fire Control, Tail Gunner)
Length: 99 ft 0 in (30.18 m)
Wingspan: 141 ft 3 in (43.05 m)
Height: 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m)
Wing area: 1,736 sq ft (161.3 m2)
Aspect ratio: 11.5
Airfoil: root: Boeing 117 (22%); tip: Boeing 117 (9%)
Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0241
Frontal area: 41.16 sq ft (3.824 m2)
Empty weight: 74,500 lb (33,793 kg)
Gross weight: 120,000 lb (54,431 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 133,500 lb (60,555 kg)
135,000 lb (61,000 kg) combat overload
Powerplant: 4 × Wright R-3350-23 Duplex-Cyclone 18-cylinder air-cooled turbosupercharged radial piston engines, 2,200 hp (1,600 kW) each
Propellers: 4-bladed constant-speed fully-feathering propellers, 16 ft 7 in (5.05 m) diameter
Performance
Maximum speed: 357 mph (575 km/h, 310 kn)
Cruise speed: 220 mph (350 km/h, 190 kn)
Stall speed: 105 mph (169 km/h, 91 kn)
Range: 3,250 mi (5,230 km, 2,820 nmi)
Ferry range: 5,600 mi (9,000 km, 4,900 nmi)
Service ceiling: 31,850 ft (9,710 m)
Rate of climb: 900 ft/min (4.6 m/s)
Lift-to-drag: 16.8
Wing loading: 69.12 lb/sq ft (337.5 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.073 hp/lb (0.120 kW/kg)
Armament
Guns:
10× .50 in (12.7 mm) Browning M2/ANs in remote-controlled turrets. (omitted from Silverplate B-29s)
2× .50 BMG and 1× 20 mm M2 cannon in tail position (the cannon was later removed)
Bombs:
12,000 lb (5,400 kg) over 1,600 mi (2,600 km; 1,400 nmi) radius at medium altitude
20,000 lb (9,100 kg) maximum over short distances at low altitude
Could be modified to carry two 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) Grand Slam bombs externally.
The Silverplate version delivered the first atomic bombs.
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It was the only decision. Here in Australia, my father quit his lawyer job and enlisted in December 1941 as Japanese stormed over New Guinea and would be 20 miles from Australian territory. His grandmother kissed goodbye to a strapping 180lb, red headed rugby player. In November 1945 she saw him again for the first time, as he walked through the front gate, an emaciated, ulcerated, white haired 100lb skeleton, having been taken prisoner in 1944 and tortured. She took one look and fainted on the garden path at the sight of him. He took six months to recover and went on to head the Australian prosecution section at the Rabaul War Crimes tribunals of 1946 and 47. As Judge Advocate, he condemned 73 Japanese officers and NCOs to death by hanging. One of them was his torturer on New Britain. The atomic bomb saved millions of lives and brought the war to an end.
Great answer. Hi from Brisbane.
I'll bet that guy shit himself when he saw who was prosecuting him 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a wonder he didn't drop dead on the spot.
It for sure reinforced the stop to the war. But as usual shady documents and interviews of politicians & military higher ups revealed that most likely it was going to stop really really soon regardless. And I mean… two atomic bombs? I’m not saying they didn’t commit horrible atrocities but the civilians most likely did not.. wish in war that the politicians and the jerks up top were the ones who are sent to fight each other.
A close friend of my dad’s flew the camera ship, a B-29 also, alongside this aircraft. I never met the person but my dad told me what he said afterwards. The camera plane pilot was absolutely terrified of the destructive power of the A Bomb. He prayed that no one ever detonates a nuclear weapon again.
I thought the cameras malfunctioned, the plane was called the great artiste. (I think)
But to be on that plane, hell ain’t the word
Only Tibbets and the weapons officer who armed the bomb in flight and had the ultimate say on it's release knew what they were dropping, the rest of the crew was given dark goggles and told to expect a bright flash.
The cost of an invasion of Japan would have resulted in at least one million allied casualties. My Dad would have been one of them, he was very active Navy. We thank the Nation as a whole for ending the war in this way. Commented by and ex-Nuclear Weapons Delivery officer. Thank you for the memories.
Not considering the millions it saved in China, Malaysia, etc. Up until them Japan killed millions of innocent people in the most brutal way, often with similar methods used by Germany
My wife's father was a flight engineer on B-29s. It was a pleasure to have known him.
Thank GOD for Men like him. His sacrifice is not forgotten.
My dad was a pilot in WWII. I love documentaries like this.
My uncle worked at the Wright Engine Plant during the war. He lived around the corner from us and I would see him regularly when I was growing up. He was hand chosen to build and mill the cranks on the Enola Gay for the bomb run. At his funeral, the Commemorative Air Force honored him. This is when I found out what he did. I knew he worked on B-29's, but not his historic involvement in Silverplate. He was a kind, wonderful man.
Liar liar your pants are on fire 🤡🤡🤡
My dad's US Army amphibian engineers regiment was training to bring soldiers ashore for the invasion of Japan. They were told to expect 60% casualties in the first hour of invasion. They were at their base in the Philippines watching a movie projected on a bed sheet when it was stopped in the middle. They were all told a big bomb was dropped on Japan and the War is over. There was much celebrating.
The saying before that was The Golden Gate in '48 and the bread line in '49.
I don't get it... what does the saying mean?
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"Golden Gate in 48" was when they figured they'd be home via their speculation of when the war was going to end, (Golden Gate meaning sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge coming home from the Pacific).
And "The bread line in 49" meant a year later they'd expect to be back in the same unemployment lines most had been in before the war.
Fighters make headlines. Bombers make policy.
My Dad was in the Air Corps in WWII. He was flying over west Texas and saw the huge flash from the Trinity test in New Mexico. They radioed this in and when they landed in Las Vegas they were let in on the secret - a magnesium plant had exploded in the desert. He didn't know what had really happened until the next one exploded in Hiroshima. My dad was stationed in Las Vegas and knew Tibbits and some of the other Wendover crew of the Enola Gay.
Saved so many lives!
My interest in this subject is keen. I even once visited Los Alamos as a tourist, and stayed in a motel built on the site of one the key technical buildings. . . . This documentary is one of the best presentations of that time in history. I even learned a couple new facts of which I was previously unaware. i.e.: The incredible depth of planning and training. . . . PLUS: Gary Sinise is perfect. . . . WELL DONE, BRAVO 👏
Interesting to find out that BOB LEWIS was the co-pilot .
But it wasn't me .
What a fascinating film
I wish that the proper American flag would be used with the headlines. There were 48-states, not 50.
I can’t think of a better man to do the commentary than Gary senise!!
AMEN! THANK YOU LT. DAN!
The dropping of the Two Atomic Bombs was a justified necessity at that time, the tragic loss of life is regrettable, however the cost in human life in an invasion of
Japan would have been horrifically high & totally unacceptable to the allied nations.
I had two uncles that fought in the middle east (Africa) & then in the defence of New Guinea (Kokoda) & their stories of the atrocities carried out by the Japanese
would turn your hair white, so for me the dropping of the atomic bomb was more than ok.
During the 70’s , I was employed in Allis Chalmers in West Allis , Wisconsin and the atomic bomb’s shell was made there .
I transcribed Doolittle's discretion of the flight of the Enola Gay. Fascinating.
She saved the lives of my father & uncles!!!! I must see her before I depart this life!!!!! - Marc Smith, born August 16, 1943.
Talk about History!!!☆☆☆
I saw the Enola Gay when it was on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in DC.
i've been to hiroshima, it's cleaned up pretty good. i really like the ISS and what we're doing in space, it just needss to sink in to the rest of the planet that we do better when we cooperate, after all i "call" myself english, but i now have relatives in japan, they are my family too, so you can argue with family, but you oughtn't be bombing them.
my great grandfather was a driver for a soviet commander, i don't remember when he died, but it was at least a couple years before i was born
Great documentary. No one like war n no one really profits from it either. Where would we be today if that hadn't of happened. Brave men all. The choice was made for all humanity n the good of all people.
It was found out after the USSR fell apart that the KGB had agents at every level of the project. From D.C to MPs on the airfield. The only thing the didn’t get was the final assembly steps. They got that in the late 40s.
The USSR did gain a great deal of knowledge leaked from the Manhattan project,but would have produced their own weapon without it,they had some of the best nuclear physicists in the world.The team they assembled under Igor Khurchatov were excellent.
Very interesting documentarie 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Watch the movie Above and Beyond with Robert Taylor playing Col Paul Tibbetts. In depth story of how the Bomb was developed. Enola Gay was the name of Tibbett's mom.
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It's saved a lot of American lives and that was a excellent reason to drop it
I just found out , The Japanese military/leadership was estimating losing 20,000,000 people in the Allied invasion of the japan mainland. The US was planning on losing 1,000,000. The Atomic attack killed around 900,000 . So the Atomic attack SAVED approx. 20 MILLION lives
No. The estimated deaths from the atomic bombs were: 140,000 at Hiroshima, and 74,000 at Nagasaki - that's 214,000.
The Japanese had held back 10,000 airplanes to be used as Kamikazis against the invasion fleet. At the time my father was in the Pacific running the boilers in the bottom of the light carrier Langley. Without the 2 nuclear strikes I wouldn't be typing this.
Better warm up them engines 😵😜
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41:32 To the best of my knowledge neither Japan or the Emperor declared an unconditional surrender, the term used was a cease of hostilities (or words to that effect) as they would never use the term "Surrender" and I do believe that because Japan would never admit defeat. It was not in their vocabulary.
I will never criticize the use of the Bomb on Japan, it was new , it was a learning experience and it did end WWII.
Afterward it became the great deterrent, I think that worked for quite a few nations for decades.............. What happens now?? Who knows but it's now in the wrong hands.
Well you should try reading the actual surrender, because they might not have had a word for it in their language but they sure knew how to say it in English.
The Allies would accept nothing short of complete and unconditional surrender, and that's exactly what they got from the Japanese.
Well, you're wrong and have never read the Potsdam Proclamation which is what the Japanese agreed to. Here's paragraph 13 of the terms of surrender - with the wording "unconditional surrender."
13. We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.
excellent
Thanks!
my uncle flew bombers in the RCAF in ww2, for Canada
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I visited Hiroshima a few years ago & walked around the Genbaku Dome and Memorial Park & I witnessed the destruction & loss of life due to the A-bomb & can seriously say that this should NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!
Was the B-29 based in Tinker Field , Oklahoma ? I was in this Tinker Air Force Base , Oklahoma during the 80’s .
Correct me if I am wrong, but the images beginning at 37:28 appear to be first of the Temple of Heaven (Tiantan in Beijing, China) followed by the Bund (riverfront) in Shanghai, China. Earlier images from China were a bit odd, but hearing the narration say that "The city of Hiroshima was one of Japan's principle seaports ..." over images of the river port of Shanghai is really unfortunate.
Damn, you screw up one more time, and you go to Adak!!!!!!!!! 73-74 I chose to go. I loved Adak.
i still think it was needed
Now the threat of Japan is, well u know
discussing gay Enola without Paul tibbets is not fun, thank you for the motivation, Mr. Paul tibbets
Enola Gay, not gay Enola. This was Tibbet's mother's name.
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Competitor to Kellogg's for Rice Krispies, yet more successful.
That non stop background music gets annoying fast.
The calandar year was 1979
SIRS , thank you all . Ding-How and Gung-Ho .
they say the nuclear bombing of Japan ( Nagasaki 6 augusti 1945 ) was not why the japanese gave up
it was the russian attack on manchuria 9 augusti 1945. It had resources and the Japanese had moved industry there to evade U.S. bombings. When they realized they would loose manchuria there was no point in continuing the war.
"They" say a lot, and they're usually wrong.
Not true. The Japanese had sent an agreement to the Potsdam Proclamation early on the morning of August 10, 1945, to their embassies in Switzerland and Sweden for transmitting the surrender to the U.S., Britain, Russia, and China. Japan was not formally notified of Russia's declaration of war and their invasion of China until the afternoon of July 10, 1945, when the Japanese Foreign Minister Togo, met with the Russian Ambassador Malik and was given the declaration of war.
Secondly, Stalin had given assurances to Truman that Russia would enter the Pacific War by the middle of August 1945, at the Potsdam Conference. Stalin was prompted to accelerate the Russian entry into the war when he learned of the use of the atomic bomb on August 7. 1945. He did this as the Yalta Agreement had given compensation to the Russians for their participation in the Pacific War.
With the use of the atomic bomb, Stalin was convinced that the Allied forces might be able to win the war without Russian participation so he ordered his military to enter China as soon as possible so he could claim compensation. However you want to look at it - the use of atomic bombs ended the war.
@@buckhorncortez see there?
you say "Japanese had sent an agreement to the Potsdam Proclamation early on the morning of August 10"
just hours after the russians had attacked
they didnt send any message after hiroshima and not after nagasaki but right after the russians attacked
That is total Bovine Scatology. After the two nuclear attacks the Japanese high command were planning on a Coup to depose the Emperor and fight to the last man. That Coup attempt was interrupted by a B-29 raid.
@@jonathanoconnor9546 you can not depose the emperor of japan.
If you are crazy enough to try that why would a B-29 raid stop you?
no ... the rest of japan will automatically attack anyone who is attacking the emperor.
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Get rid of that music
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A dark day in the human beings history was the birthday of neuclear wapons..
_"I was ten when the B29 came. We stayed underground for three days. When we came up the city was gone. And the heat, it brought rain, black rain, you made the rain black"_
what is your point
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Japan was given 2 (two) warnings to surrender and the decision by the Japanese military to continue to fight was Their mistake.
The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan was horrific. That decision brought consequences.
Weleco back war nuklir power 👍
There is evidence that both nukes didn’t have to be dropped to end the war, I’ve seen a few documentaries on the subject, I suppose it’s subjective and how you see things I guess.
Those two bombs saved countless American lives. The poor demented gentleman that was elected President should watch and learn what it's like to carry a rack of balls.
Japan started the war and killed millions of innocent people in our country and all over Asia. We must defeat those who attacked us with our most powerful weapons available, not only to shorten the war thus avoiding thousands more American casualties but also to deter future enemy attacks that could cause more killings of innocent people. We must have deterrence in order to avoid future war. Appeasement will invite attacks. The history has proven that.
@@bradleyhale12 I was able to serve with the successor to the 509th which was Strategic Air Command. We had the B-52G on 15 minute ground alert in the case Russia would attempt a first strike at the US. The knowledge gained during the dropping of the bombs on Japan helped us have a command that was near perfect. I served with the 92d Security Police Squadron, we took the security of the base and it's mission very serious. We won the cold war after some 46 years of service as a command without firing a nuclear weapon in anger. That was because Russia knew we were ready and serious about our mission. It took every man and woman at the base to complete the mission of Peace Is Our Profession! For those that think the weapons were not needed, maybe you would not be here as your grandfathers or fathers would have died invading Japan. War is never easy and thousands die, that is just how it is. I thank God we had the know how in 1945 to end the war without loosing a million men and women!!!
@@kzoo4053 My only question is why the U.S. did not drop an A bomb on Germany when it was so successful on Japan.
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The answer would be about three months, the US did not have it ready in May 1945.