But even now, no one on board the Enola Gay knows its final destination. A weather plane reaches Hiroshima. The sky over the city is clear. On the ground, a yellow alert rings out for 22 minutes.

Early in the morning of August 6, 1946, a US Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from the its base in Tinian, near Guam, and headed for the city of Hiroshima in southern Japan.

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading ...

The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed swiftly. Enola Gay faced no resistance as it dropped the bomb.

US Air Force The ground crew and pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima The Enola Gay had flown from the US base on Tinian, in the Mariana Islands, to Hiroshima a few hours ...

The museum is known for exhibiting the restored B-29 bomber named Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Referring to his “Hiroshima Collection,” Tsuchida said: “I ...

Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” over his city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Little Boy ...

Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Yukio Nakata. At seventeen seconds after 8:15 a.m. on August 6 1945, the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “ultimate weapon”, the atomic bomb ...

In 1995, the National Air and Space Museum planned to exhibit items affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, such as victims’ personal effects, along with the Enola Gay B-29 ...

When the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Truman understood the repercussions. "This places a terrible responsibility upon myself and upon the War Department," he said.

and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.

He saw US bomber the Enola Gay in the sky as his grandmother called ... to a river that was filled with bodies. The bomb reduced Hiroshima to rubble. There was also an invisible threat: radiation.