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Most have been turned into scrap, said Dik A. Although 4,000 B-29's were built and 580 were lost in combat, 35 survive. Forty-three seconds later it detonated 580 m (1,870 ft) over the Shima Hospital. At precisely 8:15:17 the Little Boy bomb was released from the Enola Gay. Alison, chief of collections at the Air and Space Museum. 'Enola Gay,' accompanied by two other B-29s, 'The Great Artiste' and 'Number 91,' approached Hiroshima from the northeast one hour later.
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The plane was in so many pieces that even the original Boeing manuals did not provide enough of a guide for the restorers, said Thomas H. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility in Suitland, Md. It was trucked this year to the center in Chantilly, Va., in 12 loads from the Paul E. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport. The entire propeller-driven bomber, which has a 141-foot wingspan and weighs 137,500 pounds, is too large for the museum, one of the most visited in the country. After a 10-year $1 million renovation, its 60-foot front fuselage was displayed at the museum on the Mall. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (on display at the U.S. This is the first time that the aircraft, one of 15 B-29's modified for secret bombing, has been reassembled to its condition on its mission day. On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Conley, national commander of the American Legion, which led the fight against the 1995 exhibition, said, ''As long as the Enola Gay is presented in the light that it was used - to end the war and save lives - that's fine.''Ī spokesman for the Air Force Association, which also protested that exhibition, said, ''We are satisfied that it is in historical context this time and does not make comments about U.S.