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To: Retain Mike

Why was the aircraft named “Enola Gay”?


27 posted on 08/01/2021 1:20:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

per wiki:

“The Enola Gay (/ɪˈnoʊlə/) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code-named “Little Boy”, was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the destruction of about three quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target, Nagasaki, being bombed instead.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay


32 posted on 08/01/2021 1:23:49 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Enola Gay” was Col. Paul Tibbets mother’s name.


33 posted on 08/01/2021 1:25:31 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think it was Tibbets mothers name.


35 posted on 08/01/2021 1:26:09 PM PDT by crz
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That was his mother’s name.


59 posted on 08/01/2021 2:11:01 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That was back in the day when the word gay had a completely different meaning before the queers hijacked it.


116 posted on 08/01/2021 10:11:15 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
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