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...ENOLA GAY The bomb was carried by a B-29 Superfortress stripped of all armament but the tail gun. The day before the mission, pilot Tibbets named the plane after his mother...
DIED. RICHARD NELSON, 77, the radio operator and youngest crew member on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima; in Riverside, Calif. Nelson, who later said he had no regrets about participating in the historic mission, reported the effects of the attack that killed more than 80,000 in a brief coded message to President Truman: "Results excellent...
...conflict. After months of heated debate, officials of Washington's Smithsonian Institution last week withdrew plans to display artifacts and photos of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called the decision ``regrettable,'' Hiroshima survivor Koshiro Kondo was more emphatic: ``We had hoped that the feelings of the people of Hiroshima might have gotten through to the American people...
...took less than 60 seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a "visual shock," although all wore sun glasses...
DIED. Wellwood E. Beall, 71, pioneer airplane designer and engineer; following surgery; in Santa Monica, Calif. During his 30 years with Boeing (1934 to 1964), Beall oversaw the development of the 314 Boeing Clipper, the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress of World War II; the B-47 and B-52 jet bombers; and the Boeing 707, the first commercial jet aircraft. In 1964 he became a corporate vice president with Douglas Aircraft...