Enola gay crew insane
As navigator of the Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the bomb, Theodore Van Kirk was only 24 years old. Six days later, the Japanese government surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.įerebee retired from the U.S. A member of the US air crew responsible for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died. On August 9, another bomber crew dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Forty-three seconds later, the bomb detonated, instantly killing 70,000 people. The 9,000-pound bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy,” tumbled from the plane’s belly and sped six miles to its target below. Ferebee, then 26 and a veteran of 64 combat missions, was napping and initially did not hear the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr., brief the crew about their top-secret mission.Īpproaching Hiroshima, Ferebee activated the plane’s automated Norden bombsight, centered its crosshairs on the Aioi Bridge and called “bomb away.” It was 8:15 a.m. from Tinian Island in the western Pacific. Both disturbing and highly entertaining, this documentary successfully depicts the hilarious naive attempts to ease the bomb scare with the gallows humor of the 1980s, which may be no. But Jerome Shapiros Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination.
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