I would assume this gesture would be made as a proud dedication to her and her memory. I wonder what he was thinking when he named the Enola Gay after his mother. I’ve seen a picture of Captain Tibbitts, sat proudly, taken in the cockpit of the Enola Gay before the devastating bomb drop. The effects of radiation would impact generations to come. Those that did survive had catastrophic life changing injuries, including severe burns. The initial impact of the bomb wiped out or burnt 70 percent of the buildings, killed 74,000 people (the rest would die later), killed 90 percent of doctors and nurses and 42 of the 45 local hospitals were unusable. The bomb, which was the first atomic bomb, killed over 100,000 innocent men, women and children and had devastating effects which can still be witnessed today. The bomber was flown by Captain Tibbitts who named the bomber after his mother Enola Gay Tibbitts. Enola Gay was the name of the aeroplane that carried the “Little Boy” to its destination of Hiroshima in August 1945.
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