![]() The Enola Gay was then used as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft for the follow-up attack on Nagasaki that killed 70,000 people. The bombing was carried out on a sunny day at 8:15am from an altitude of 31,600 feet. The pneumatic doors to the "bomb bay" that once held the atomic weapon were swung open for television cameras.īut Mr Daso said a decision had not been made on whether to leave them open when the plane goes on public view. The Enola Gay unleashed an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy", on the Japanese port city of Hiroshima, killing more than 140,000 people and leaving tens of thousands disfigured and suffering from lingering radiation illness. "First Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima, August 6, 1945," are written on the side of the shiny aircraft, with its transparent cockpit nose and defensive machine guns strutting out of the tail. "This airplane is a part of our history and it is a part of who we are," said Dik Daso, curator of the aeronautics division of the museum. The reassembled B-29 Superfortress was unveiled to the media yesterday in a hangar near Dulles International Airport at the museum's new annex, which opens on December 15. ![]() It carried the most destructive weapon of World War Two and now the Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan, is going on display at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.
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