On
August 6th, 1945 the crew of the Enola Gay (above) dropped an atomic
bomb on Hiroshima - a city filled with men, women and children
civilians. The heat from the blast literally melted the flesh off
people. More than seventy years later the radioactivity from the blast
is still killing people.
An
estimated 90,000–146,000 people died in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000
died in Nagasaki. Not one member of the Enola Gay crew, or their
superiors, or the politicians who ordered this abomination, was ever
charged with terrorism or murder.
The names of the murderous crew are:
The names of the murderous crew are:
- Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. – pilot and aircraft commander
- Captain Robert A. Lewis – co-pilot; Enola Gay's regularly assigned aircraft commander*
- Major Thomas Ferebee – bombardier
- Captain Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk – navigator
- Captain William S. Parsons, USN – weaponeer and mission commander.
- First Lieutenant Jacob Beser – radar countermeasures (also the only man to fly on both of the nuclear bombing aircraft)
- Second Lieutenant Morris R. Jeppson – assistant weaponeer
- Staff Sergeant George R. "Bob" Caron – tail gunner*
- Staff Sergeant Wyatt E. Duzenbury – flight engineer*
- Sergeant Joe S. Stiborik – radar operator*
- Sergeant Robert H. Shumard – assistant flight engineer*
- Private First Class Richard H. Nelson – VHF radio operator*
The last remaining member of the crew, Dutch Van Kirk, died in 2014.
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