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Where did the enola gay take off

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Bathed in floodlights, the B-29 Enola Gay awaits take-off on an historic mission: dropping the. I’m supposed to be a bomber pilot and destroy a target. August 6, 1945, 2:00 a.m., Tinian Island, the Central Pacific. 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. The Enola Gay lurched as the the 10,000 pounds Mk I bomb. And he was telling me about previous doctors, some that had been classmates of his, who were drug salesmen. Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay landing after the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan. “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. “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. In the 1989 interview, Tibbets also spoke of a lesson he learned in Cincinnati about doing his job: The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.

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