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Col. Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. piloted the B-29 known as the Enola Gay (named for Paul Tibbets mother) for the bombing of Hiroshima. The the 509th Composite Group had 15 B-29s in it, but only seven Boeing B-29s would take part, including the primary, a standby, a photo plane, one with scientific instruments to measure the blast, and three others that would scout ahead.
Most of the Crew of the Enola Gay were picked by Tibbets from his old B-17 crew.
- Capt. Robert Lewis - copilot
- Maj. Thomas Ferebee - bombardier
- Capt. Theodore Van Kirk - navigator
- Lt. Jacob Beser - radar countermeasures
- Navy Capt. William "Deak" Parsons - weaponeer
- 2nd Lt. Maurice Jeppson - assistant weaponeer
- Sgt. Joe Stiborik - radar
- Staff Sgt. George Caron - tail gunner
- Sgt. Robert Shumard - asst. flight engineer
- Pfc. Richard Nelson - radio
- Tech Sgt. Wayne Duzenberry - flight engineer
Most of this information was referenced from
http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tibbets.HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets
On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM local time, a B-29 plane, the "Enola Gay" was piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, dropped a uranium atomic bomb, code named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan.
On August 9, 1945, at 11:02 AM local time, another B-29, "Bockscar" was piloted by Colonel Charles W. Sweeney, when it dropped a plutonium atomic bomb, code named "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan.
Lots of planes bombed Japan; you'd have to be more specific.
If you mean the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that was Paul Tibbets and Charles Sweeney respectively.
There were a large number of pilots involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Where was the bombed launched from when us bombed japan?
nagasaki and hiroshima
What Japanese islands were bombed in ww2?
No Prefectures got blown up, the bombs weren't that powerful. Just the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiroshima is contained within the Hiroshima Prefecture on Honshu island. Nagasaki is contained within the Nagasaki Prefecture on Kyushu island.
What is a sentence with the words Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only two cities to have been bombed with a nuclear bomb.
Name to cityes that were badley bombed?
nagasaki and hiroshima
What was original city to be bombed in japan?
Hiroshima & nagasaki.
Which city got bombed along with Hiroshima?
Nagasaki
What cities were bombed by the atomic bomb?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What two cities were atomic bombs dropped on in japan that ended world war 2?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed to end WWII.
What punishment did Japan get for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Why would Japan bomb two of their own cities. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How many days after hiroshima was nagasaki bombed?
3 days.
What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
They were both atomic bombed in 1945.
Why are Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered?
Because they were atomic bombed by the USA
