Flight of the Enola Gay
Buckeye Aviation Book Company, 1989. Paperback. ***Signed by the Author*** A very good softcover in printed wraps. 8vo Signed by Paul Tibbets pilot of the Enola Gay on an endpaper with a group photo. Inscription says "In memory of John Elden Findley 9-7-1991."Text is clean and free of marks or underling. Includes b&w photos and an index. 316 pp.
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ISBN: 0942397118
First hand account from pilot of the bomber Enola Gay and dropping the Atom Bomb.. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. 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.
Price: $225.00