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Hello All,
Today is the72 anniversary of Hiroshima may God Bless Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew of the B-29 SUPER FORTRESS ENOLA GAY who helped bring to an end Japaneese Aggression +Attrocities helping end WW2 also Aug. 9 Col. Charlie Sweeney (who lived 3 blocks from me,Quincy,Mass.) and his crew of the FORTRESS " BOCHS CAR" and Nagasaki Mission, we owe our LIBERTY TO THESE FINE MEN!!! Maybe if they were around today the LITTLE MIDGET IN N.KOREA and the Tyrants in Iran would be SILENT!!!!
ANY WAY GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL HER VETERANS!!!!
 
I love the B-29... It's such a beautiful plane... The cockpit window is unmistakable...

As evil as the atomic bomb was, it ended the war and saved many American lives...

Remember Pearl Harbor....

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Anyone who argues against the dropping of "the bombs" is a lunatic. The fact that it took TWO of them shows how fanatic and disconnected the Japanese leadership was. Too bad one of the bombs didn't hit THEM
 
67Dart273 said:
Anyone who argues against the dropping of "the bombs" is a lunatic. The fact that it took TWO of them shows how fanatic and disconnected the Japanese leadership was. Too bad one of the bombs didn't hit THEM
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They shouldn't have started it... :poke: :mob: :realcrazy:
 
We need to take it out of mothballs, load it up, and target practice on North Korea.
 
We were at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, near Dayton, back in January. We got some pictures of Bockscar while we where there. It's hard to imagine the sheer magnitude of what it feels like to be standing there, looking at this plane while knowing its history. On one hand, thankful that it was able to fulfill its mission and end the war, but on the other hand, horrified at what it unleashed. I understand that the two planes, doing what they did, ultimately saved more lives than they took. But it still saddens me that they were even necessary.

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This last picture is my son, Will, standing in front of full scale mockups of Fat Man (the big yellow one to my son's left) and Little Boy (the smaller, more cylindrical one to my son's right).
 
It is hard to imagine the destruction that bomb did going by it's size. I went to the museum at Warner Robins AFB and they have on display the next size larger atom bomb (that was never used) and if I recall was several times stronger than the two bombs that were dropped.
 
I was on the USS Midway talking to a Veteran pilot. There were about 20 tourists in a group with the typical cameras hanging from their necks, obviously from Japan. That pilot pointed at the plane on the deck and said, "I flew a plane exactly like this right down the throats of the Japs." Yup, never forget. One old timer around me still carries around and proudly displays his Jap hunting license, which many carried. Like it or not, the world is a better place because of the oldtimers efforts.
 
65LoveAffair said:
We were at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, near Dayton...
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The museum at Wright-Patterson is OUTSTANDING!
Anyone who likes aircraft needs to have that on their short list.
And if you go, don't forget to also see the Wright Brothers shop in Dayton, where flight all began.

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Do not forget all the service members that made it happen either! The plane was just our UPS saying hello.
 
God bless those brave souls that carried out the mission that ended the war.

I was fortunate enough to attend a seminar at Wright-Patterson AFB many years ago when I was active duty Air Force. The agenda included an afternoon to visit the museum. My buddy and me ended up going back the next day cause we couldn't see it all in an afternoon. Its outstanding!
 
If you ever have a chance to go inside a Flying Fortress be it a B17 , B24 , B29... do so ! It is an amazing mix of rudimentary materials and advanced machine work and engineering. Some parts make you wonder if it could really fly and others make you wonder if it is really that old of a plane.
 
65LoveAffair said:
We were at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, near Dayton, back in January. We got some pictures of Bockscar while we where there. It's hard to imagine the sheer magnitude of what it feels like to be standing there, looking at this plane while knowing its history. On one hand, thankful that it was able to fulfill its mission and end the war, but on the other hand, horrified at what it unleashed. I understand that the two planes, doing what they did, ultimately saved more lives than they took. But it still saddens me that they were even necessary.

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This last picture is my son, Will, standing in front of full scale mockups of Fat Man (the big yellow one to my son's left) and Little Boy (the smaller, more cylindrical one to my son's right).
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My friend then Col. Charlie Sweeney flew that plane and I believe was one of the few that flew on both missions,he's passed away as General Sweeney of his services which I attended, R.I.P. General, thank you!!
 
20 odd years ago went through a tour of the Garber facility, they are the ones who restore the aircraft for the Smithsonian museum. The Enola Gay was being worked on at the time, main fuselage was in a couple of pieces, was able to walk through them, very humbling, you could feel the history being there. A great tour, a lot of aircraft finished but no room for display at the Air and Space museum.
 
spl440 said:
20 odd years ago went through a tour of the Garber facility, they are the ones who restore the aircraft for the Smithsonian museum. The Enola Gay was being worked on at the time, main fuselage was in a couple of pieces, was able to walk through them, very humbling, you could feel the history being there. A great tour, a lot of aircraft finished but no room for display at the Air and Space museum.
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I saw the Enola Gay before it was rebuilt. Part of the tail section was on display at the Smithsonian museum. I was just able to reach part of the tail section at the back corner of the display. Touching it felt electric.
 
When we went to the USAF Museum at Wright Patt in summer of '92, they only had the fuselage section of Bockscar on display - nice to see they've put the whole plane out - did you see the B-36? Holy cow, what a beast!
 
"C" company (Helos) of my battalion went to Tinian and saw the A-bomb pit the bomb was loaded into so the B-29 could roll over it and hoist it up.

I guarded nukes (torpedoes) on 2 occasions while in PI. 2 fences around the compound: First fence breech was single fire, inside 2nd fence was full auto....empty the mag. Trivia tidbit. US nuking North Korea was closer than anyone knew about back in Jan, 68. We actually had aircraft loaded with nukes 'feet dry' over North Korea for minutes after the USS Pueblo incident. It's strange to realize that these weapons ultimately saved more lives than they took.
 
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