He is the author of several books on military headgear including A Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on. Editor's note: This story originally published in the Register's Famous Iowans database. Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. Hiroshima 75th anniversary: Iowa pilot Paul Tibbets flew Enola Gay that dropped A bomb. Traduzioni in contesto per 'flew the Enola Gay' in inglese-italiano da Reverso Context: He is best known as the pilot who flew the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Today the Enola Gay remains in the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC while Bockscar is in the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. So what is largely forgotten is that while Bock didn't pilot Bockscar he was in fact present in the other B-29, The Great Artiste, which was used for scientific measures and photography of the effects caused by the release of Fat Man. ![]() When Sweeney and his crew were chosen to deliver the Fat Man while Bock and his crew were chosen to provide observation support the decision was made to swap the crews rather than to move the complex instrumentation equipment. Sweeney had used Bockscar for more than ten training and practice missions even though he and his usual crew had piloted another aircraft named The Great Artiste.
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