Posted by SUPRDUD on Friday, November 02, 2007 at 01:36:30 :
In Reply to: Re: One heck of a guy! (putting it mildly) posted by Donald F. Blair on Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 19:07:44 :
Very good but I think the plane was built in Bellvue (Omaha) Nebraska.
From Wikipedia:
Enola Gay (B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292, victor number 82) was assigned to the USAAF's 393rd Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group. The plane was one of 15 B-29s with the "Silverplate" modifications necessary to deliver nuclear bombs. Enola Gay was built by the Glenn L. Martin Company at its Omaha, Nebraska, plant at what is now Offutt Air Force Base and personally selected by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Composite Group, on May 9, 1945 while still on the assembly line as the B-29 he would use to fly the atomic bomb mission.
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