Word: enola
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That two-inch tall blob—an image of the mushroom cloud that symbolizes the murder of hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima and Nagasaki—was my only reminder of the terror that fell out of the bomb bays of Enola Gay and Bock’s Car some 60 years...
...helping design war planes for the government. "If you studied literature," he says today, "you went to war. If you studied science and engineering, the government postponed your draft in order to have you make weapons." Tsuboi was on the way to his university on Aug. 6 when the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy over Hiroshima. He was less than a mile from ground zero, near a place to this day marked by the domed skeleton of what had been a government office building in the center of town. It was 8:15 on a bright, hot, brilliantly clear morning...
...Charles "Don" Albury, 84 Co-pilot on a B-29 that accompanied the Enola Gay and on the Bockscar...
Morris R. Jeppson, 83 Weapon Test Officer on the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima...
...Theodore "Dutch" J. Van Kirk, 84 Navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima...