where was Enola Gays home base.?

Answer 1

I've been to Wendover Airbase. It's an abandoned airfield right on the Utah/Nevada border. I was advising the Utah NG's attack helicopter battalion during their annual training. The chose the abandoned airfield as their assembly area.

Sure enough, there's a brass plaque and small stone monument on the airfield stating that Wendover was the training area and launching point for the Enola Gay's historic flight.

Answer 2

The Enola Gay was accepted by the USAAF on 18 May 1945, and assigned to Crew B-9 (Captain Robert Lewis, aircraft commander), who flew the bomber from Omaha to the 509th's base at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah on 14 June 1945. Thirteen days later it left Wendover for Guam, where it received a bomb bay modification, and flew to Tinian on 6 July. It was originally given the victor number 12 but on 1 August was given the circle R tail markings of the 6th Bomb Group as a security measure and had its victor changed to 82 to avoid misidentification with actual 6th BG aircraft.

Answer 3

It never really had a home base.

The Air Craft was selected off the assembley line by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Composite Group.

After delivery to the AF, it was flown to the 509th's base at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah on 14 June 1945.

But it only stayed there for 13 days.

Then it went to Guam for bomb bay modification,

Then was flown to Tinian on 6 July, Where the markings and tail numbers were changed.

It then flew eight training missions and two combat missions
in July.

On 5 August 1945, during preparation for the first atomic mission, pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets who assumed command of the aircraft had the B-29 named after his mother, Enola Gay

So the Bomber was only called the Enola gay, one day before it flew its nuclear mission over Japan.

The Enola Gay was retired on 24 July 1946, and transfered to the Smithsonian Institution on 30 August 1946.

It's last home base, was Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico,

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And a year later in July 1947, ALF and Mork, crashed thier space ship at Roswell, where they thought the Enola Gay was based.

While they never got to see the Bomber they had flown 300 million light years to see, they did have sucessful sitcom careers, before being deported by the MNB in 2000.

Answer 4

Wendover Utah (its on the border of Utah/Nevada). currently its just a small town with some casinos mostly but there are remnants of the old airbase around.