It’s too bad they couldn’t have forgot how to make them after that bombing, but on the other hand, maybe the bombs are the things that have kept peace this long. I know he saved more Americans lives than he cost the Japanese, and he probably saved Japanese lives when it comes right down to it, because they would have lost a lot more lives in the fighting than they lost in that bombing. They claimed that if we went into Japan, we would have lost millions.
I’m sure we would have lost an awful lot of men. "I think we all agreed with him that he made the right decision of bombing Hiroshima. It took two bombs to make the Japanese realize what was going to happen to them." - Mildred Pogue Gardner, Lincoln University of Nebraska student. However, on the morning of August 6, 1945, when the Enola Gay strained to get off the ground as a result of the 10,000-pound atom bomb that made the B-29. "We knew that the cost of lives was going to be just unreal, that was the justification for it and that was the justification that we had to take too. You’d think it would cure everybody of ever starting a war again, but it hasn’t." - Rose Marie Murphy Christensen, Columbus Grade school student. It was a terrible, terrible thing, and it’s too bad, but there were a lot of people who got killed in that war. They started it and they had their chance, and even after we dropped the first one, they didn’t give up, so we had todrop the second one. Visit the Smithsonian website on the Enola Gay. The debate over how the war was won has continued. Udvar-Hazy Center outside Dulles Airport in northern Virginia. Now, the entire restored plane is displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. But there was so much disagreement over the plane’s mission that the exhibit was closed. The Enola Gay was restored and parts of the plane were put on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum between 19. It made its final flight on December 2, 1953, when it was flown to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. flew the plane to Park Ridge, Illinois, a storage site for the Smithsonian Institution. Binoculars belonging to Paul Tibbets and Bob Lewis, the pilot and co-pilot of the bomber Enola Gay, also known as the Enola Gay Binoculars, that dropped. The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. With Billy Crystal, Kim Darby, Patrick Duffy, Gary Frank. After her mission, the Enola Gay was returned to the United States in 1946 and stored in Arizona for several years. Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb: Directed by David Lowell Rich.