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Boeing B-29 Superfortress (Enola Gay) P.1

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Title	Boeing B-29 Superfortress (Enola Gay) P.1
Identifier	39222000563069.tif
Photo Number	No. 01101
Classification	387
Publisher	Digitized by: J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Subject	Transportation, Air
Other Subject	Boeing B-29 Superfortress; Airplanes
Description	From: News Bureau, Boeing Airplane Company, Seattle 14, Washington. S-1452, June 29th, 1949. THE BOEING B-29 SUPERFORTRESS, ENOLA GAY. The "Enola Gay" a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, is famed as the first airplane to drop an atomic bomb on an enemy target - Hiroshima, August 6th, 1945. It was the largest version of the B-29, at that time possessing now Curtiss-Wright reversible pitch electric propellers, a fuel injection engine and a manifold fuel system. Stripped for action at Hiroshima, all turrets and blisters other than the tail turret were removed from the airplane. It was named in honor of the mother of its pilot Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets. The airplane later participated in the Bikini atom bomb tests. Gift of the Boeing Company. Used in Utah Historical Quarterly, Fall, 1963. See also: Wendover Air Force Base, and Tibbets, Paul W.
Comment	From: News Bureau, Boeing Airplane Company, Seattle 14, Washington. S-1452, June 29th, 1949; Used in "Utah Historical Quarterly" Fall (1963); See also: Wendover Air Force Base, and Tibbets, Paul W.
Rights management	Digital Image © 2008 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding institution	Utah State Historical Society
Relation	Classified Photograph Collection
Source format	Print Photograph
Source size	8.8 inches x 6.7 inches
Source donors	Boeing Airplane Company
Type	image
Format.use	image/jp2
Format.creation	Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000 pixels on the long axis. Archival resolution: 3525 x 2674
Scanned by	Dave Heyborne

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