In the meantime, the project accepts donations via PayPal to the e-mail address support(at). To Utah legislators, we say: Next time you have an extra, say, $36,000 or so to spend, how about shifting some of it toward the long-envisioned restoration project out at Wendover. The hangar from which it was launched shouldn't look as though it has been condemned.
Co-pilot Robert Lewis himself wrote, "My God, what have we done?" Nonetheless, this mission has enormous military and historical significance. Granted, the Enola Gay's mission remains controversial. One reason it was hard to believe: This is what the hangar that housed the Enola Gay looks like now. The memory? Driving around on a quest for Mildred's, a restaurant on the Utah side that makes its own veggie burgers, noticing a historic marker, stopping to read it, and exclaiming, "THE Enola Gay?" The most important military mission in U. After stops at Guam and the Marianas Islands, the aircraft carried out its historic mission on August 6 and 9, 1945, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On June 27, 1945, it took off from Wendover for the South Pacific. On June 14, 1945, the newly manufactured B-29 was ferried from Nebraska to the army base there.
The Enola Gay mission actually launched from Wendover. Along with Smith, Tibbets is an icon in Wendover.The crew didn't just train in Wendover. Paul Tibbets and the crew of the Enola Gay trained in Wendover to drop the first atomic bombs - dubbed Little Boy and Fat Man - on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.