So, I thought, you know, I’m just like that if I get to thinking about some innocent person getting hit on the ground. They assumed the symptoms of the patients and it destroyed their ability to render medical necessities. That is, they were selling legalized drugs for drug houses and so forth and so on, because they couldn’t practice medicine due to the fact that they had too much sympathy for their patients. And he was telling me about previous doctors, some that had been classmates of his, who were drug salesmen. In order to carry such a heavy load as an atomic bomb, the Enola Gay was modified: new propellers, stronger engines, and faster opening bomb bay doors. The Enola Gay was a B-29 Superfortress (aircraft 44-86292), part of the 509th Composite Group. “Well, then I got a thought that I had engendered and encountered for the first time in Cincinnati when I was going to medical school. On August 6, 1945, Van Kirk, Tibbets, and Ferebee, now aboard a B-29 Superfortress called the Enola Gay, took off from Tinian for mainland Japan. Just before take-off, the plane's nickname was painted on its side. The name of the plane was Enola Gay, named after the pilots mother. “The first time I dropped bombs on a target over there, … I said to myself, ‘People are getting killed down there that don’t have any business getting killed. The bomb exploded about 1,500 feet above the city with a force of 15,000 tons of TNT. including the adjacent island of Aguijan, (2000) 3,540 (2010) 3,136.In the 1989 interview, Tibbets also spoke of a lesson he learned in Cincinnati about doing his job: The main town, San Jose, is on the southwest coast. The economy is little developed, with some cultivation of vegetables for export to Guam and a small beef-cattle industry. A large part of the island is still leased by the U.S.
bombers based at Tinian dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of. military air base, equipped with what were then the world’s longest runways. (23 February 1915 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. After its capture by U.S.-led Allied forces in 1944, the island was converted into a major U.S. Tinian was administered by Japan before World War II and became a major sugarcane-growing and sugar-processing centre. Of volcanic formation, it rises to an elevation of 614 feet (187 metres). It lies about 100 miles (160 km) north of Guam. Tinian, one of the Mariana Islands and part of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States, in the western Pacific Ocean.
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