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As Hiroshima receded into the distance, crew members looked back through the windows and gaped at the mushroom cloud rising more than 30,000 feet. Two shock waves from the explosion buffeted the plane. The Enola Gay turned and headed back toward the base. “Little Boy,” as the bomb had been nicknamed, dropped from 30,000 feet and detonated above the city as planned. Over Hiroshima, the bomb bay doors opened at 8:15 a.m. Nelson, an inveterate reader, pulled out a novel, “Watch Out for Willie Carter,” a boxing story. For most of the six-hour flight, there was little to do. The Enola Gay, named for the mother of colonel and pilot Paul Tibbets, took off at 2:45 a.m. “I knew it was an important mission because we were told this mission had the potential to end the war,” Nelson wrote. That was one tipoff to the gravity of the situation. they boarded the plane in the glare of floodlights, with hundreds of officials present. They ate breakfast in the mess hall and said prayers in the chapel. As Nelson himself related in a posthumously published autobiography, “At the time I still did not fully understand the scope of the mission, or the strength of the weapon we were carrying.” 5 shortly before midnight for a briefing in which they learned they would be dropping a bomb. The crew had no idea what they were practicing for. Nelson flew on three routine missions on the B-29, each time accompanied by two other planes. Plane and crew were sent to Tinian, one of the Mariana Islands. On June 14, he was among those who went to Omaha, Nebraska to pick up the silver-plated B-29 from the factory. “He thought: ‘I can’t be a pilot, but I can be on a plane.’” A sergeant looked at his papers and told him: “Oh, you’re meant for overseas.” “Dick was just elated,” Nancy said. In April 1945, he reported to the 509th Squadron in Wendover, Utah. Unbeknownst to him, he was being investigated by the Manhattan Project’s security team. Everyone else in his class received assignments and shipped out. Instead, he went to the Air Corps’ radio school in South Dakota and after graduation was sent to the B-29 base in Clovis, New Mexico to await orders. Army after high school, hoping to become a pilot like his older brother. Nevertheless, she heard her husband’s stories so many times in the years to come that in his speaking engagements, if he’d forget a detail, he would look at her and she would prompt him.īorn in Moscow, Idaho in 1925, Richard relocated with his family to Los Angeles at age 3 and enlisted in the U.S. Nancy Nelson was only 13 when World War II ended. Murrow, and many, many more.Shipping and handling will be $3 anyw in the US or Canada I accept paypal or postal money orders only.We met Thursday, the 75th anniversary of the bombing. In the near future I will be offering rare and hard to find signed items from old time Hollywood, political, and historical genres, including such names as Paul Newman, Laurel and Hardy, the cast of The Wild Bunch, Lincoln's cabinet, an original "Onward Christian Soldiers" by Baring-Gould, Frank Sinatra, Alan Ladd, Edward R. I have amassed a huge number of signed items throughout a lifetime of collecting.
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ORIGINAL PHOTO OF ENOLA GAY AND CREW AFTER BOMB DROPPED FULL
This item is authentic, and I will refund the full purchase price if ever deemed otherwise by a certified PADA dealer.This photo is in excellent condition.
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DON'T BE FOOLED BY SIGNED PHOTOS OF THESE MEN WHICH ARE FORGED AND WHICH FIND THEIR WAY ONTO EBAY FROM TIME TO TIME. I guarantee this to be authentic in every way.A genuine photo signed by pilot Paul Tibbets alone sells at auction for over $150.A genuine photo or document signed by VanKirk sells between $150 - $350.I am starting this item, signed by both men, at a low opening bid. 1945".This photograph has been in my family for many years, and was obtained in person by my father, a veteran of World War Two. Paul Tibbets signed his name, followed by "Pilot", and Dutch VanKirk signed his name followed by "Navigator, Enola Gay, 6 Aug. Enola GayWorld War Two Autographed Photo Offered for your consideration is this glossy 8 x 10 inch black and white photo of the crew of the famous "Enola Gay" bomber which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, bringing an end to the war between the United States and Japan.This photo is s igned by the pilot, Paul Tibbets, and by the navigator, Dutch VanKirk these signatures are in bright blue ink (looks like fountain pen), and each man signed his name across his own likeness.