The official answer is tinian but my grandfather (United States Army Air Corps ret.) said that the plane did infact take off from wake island tinian was for some reason a government lie
about 10 years
The 'Enola Gay' was named in honor of Enola Gay Tibbets, his mother.
The Enola Gay wasn't the atomic bomb. That honor goes to Little Boy and Fat Man. The Enola Gay was the plane specially created to drop the atomic bombs :)
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Paul Tibbets, famed pilot of the Enola Gay, was a Brigadier General in the US Air Force.
Tinian Base.
Enola Gay was named after the mother of the Hiroshima pilot Lieut Col. Paul Tibbets (Enola Gay Haggard)
about 10 years
Tinian in the Marianas Islands.
Enola gay was the name of the bomber in WW2 that dropped a nuke. So i guess a massive casualty list was the effect of the enola gay
The Enola Gay is a B-29, and it is 99 feet long.
No there is no swatiska on the Enola Gay. It served in the Pacific Theater of Operations.
That's it, the Enola Gay.
'Enola Gay' was the name of the B-29 Superfortress which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. The pilot of 'Enola Gay', Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., named the aircraft after his mother.
The 'Enola Gay' was named in honor of Enola Gay Tibbets, his mother.
The Enola Gay wasn't the atomic bomb. That honor goes to Little Boy and Fat Man. The Enola Gay was the plane specially created to drop the atomic bombs :)
The bomb that the Enola Gay dropped was the Little Boy