2006-08-16 00:12:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
No, she tossed off a Fat Man, and then a Little Boy
2006-08-16 00:22:22 · answer #1 · answered by tjs282 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the time, gay still meant happy. The Enola Gay brought about the end of the war so I assume Enola was pretty happy about that.
2006-08-16 07:41:22 · answer #2 · answered by Kuji 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On August 5, 1945, during preparation for the first atomic mission, Tibbets had the plane named after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets (1893–1983, who had been named for the heroine of a novel). According to Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts (Enola Gay, Stein & Day Pub, 1977), regularly assigned aircraft commander Robert Lewis was unhappy to be displaced by Tibbets for the important mission, and furious when he arrived at the aircraft on the morning of 6 August to see it painted with the now-famous nose art. Tibbets himself, interviewed on Tinian later that day by war correspondents, confessed that he was a bit embarrassed at having attached his mother's name to such a fateful mission.
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2006-08-16 07:20:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Enola Gay was the name of his wife.
I stand corrected. The plane was named after the pilot's mother.
2006-08-16 07:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by no nickname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont care but Enola is what i want to name my baby girl
2006-08-16 07:18:42 · answer #5 · answered by princessnicola23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, she was the air plane that carried the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. A B-29 to be exact.
2006-08-16 07:59:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it was the name of the captains mothers name who drop the first A bomb on Hiroshima.
2006-08-16 07:17:56 · answer #7 · answered by MR_KGB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, that was the name of Paul Tibbets ( the squadron commander's) plane on the Hiroshima bombing mission. Its his mothers name.
2006-08-17 04:29:29 · answer #8 · answered by Ken W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, didn't you hear she was caught in a hangar with Memphis Belle late one night; they were checking out each other's cockpits.
2006-08-16 07:18:38 · answer #9 · answered by ♣Tascalcoán♣ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
from what i remember she had a few Air force men inside her. So i'm guessing she was Bi at worse
2006-08-16 07:21:00 · answer #10 · answered by Monty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋