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Enola Gay

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Enola Gay
B-52 that dropped the Hiroshima A-bomb. [U.S. Hist.: WB, W:405]

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His accomplishments allowed America to advance its technology in both civilian and military applications; ethyl gasoline enabled carrier-based Army aircraft, and fueled the Enola Gay when it dropped the atomic bomb that ended World War II.
The kind of thinking that Heinold abhors was also in Jimmy Doolittle's mind over Japan, and in the minds of the pilots over Dresden, and in the minds of the Los Alamos scientists and crew of the Enola Gay.
An example is the B-29 Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
 
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