The 509th Remembered: A History of the 509th Composite Group by Robert Krauss. A beautiful sunrise greeted the Enola Gay as it neared the rendezvous at Iwo Jima. Museum specialists continued to restore the remaining components of the airplane, and after an additional nine years the fully assembled Enola Gay went on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Enola Gays return to Tinian after dropping the Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. The exhibition text summarizes the history and development of the Boeing B-29 fleet used in bombing raids against Japan.Īnother portion of the exhibit detailes the painstaking efforts of Smithsonian aircraft restoration specialists who had spent more than a decade restoring parts of the Enola Gay for this exhibition. Enola Gay have already crafted a unique sound that has drawn widespread acclaim, culminating with them being chosen to perform at Ireland Music Week, Eurosonic, and SXSW for their 6th, 7th and 8th performances ever. Discover the soundtrack to Ireland’s future. The components on display include two engines, the vertical stabilizer, an aileron, propellers, and the forward fuselage that contains the bomb bay.Ī video presentation about the Enola Gay's mission includeds interviews with the crew before and after the mission including mission pilot Col. The discovery portal and community for music on the Island of Ireland. In two years, 1,585 B-26 Martin Marauders rolled off the Omaha assembly line. At its peak in November 1943, the Martin Bomber Plant employed 14, 527 persons. The B-29 (also called Superfortress) was a four-engine heavy bomber that was built by Boeing. government began plans for an aircraft assembly plant at Fort Crook, Nebraska. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. It contains several major components of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target. This exhibition, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, tells the story of the role of the Enola Gay in securing Japanese surrender.