Enola Gay Exhibit

The Enola Gay in its permanent home at the Udvar Hazy museum.

If you wish to view my tour of the rest of the museum, please see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3XXL-qcJ4

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• B-29
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[ghostface2814]

To all of those who are making these comments on humanity, if you research what the Japs did to our troops, never mind Pearl Harbor, what about the POWs these people were less than human. When a country declares war, there are no "innocent" as far as I'm concerned. Either your friend or foe. There're no rules in love and war, especially once someone has already broken them. You play, you pay.

[DBLcable]

@drsjandoedel @drsjandoedel Wrong decision? easy to say sitting in your house safe and sound. Yes, it's much more humane and less evil to murder millions of Jews and Chinese slowly and methodically. We don't care if you don't like us in fact we kind of enjoy it. Dipshit

[1Dougy85]

@Coolrockndad I apologize for my a hole statement, I read "it saves so many of our soldiers lives" and assumed you were American. Sorry. The United States did not win both fronts of WW2. The USSR won the war against the Nazis (much thanks) the US only helped as much as UK did. The US did do the most toward defeating Japan (much thanks) and we are grateful, many others did also help. The USSR entrance into the war was a significant factor in Japanese surrender. Does your cock reach your ass?

[1Dougy85]

@Coolrockndad I'll say this once now, and "ONLY" one more time later...the Japanese, during their successful offence of late 41, 42 demanded or warned many of their objectives to surrender or suffer the consequence. They also did so at Nanking 1937. Therefore, I cannot be sure that they would not have issued a warning if they had possessed an atomic bomb. They were a very honorable people. I do not say, again, that the US should have given a warning. History records that they did not

[Coolrockndad]

@1Dougy85 I'll say one more time ... If the Japanese had the A-bomb they would have dropped it on us with no warning so cut the crap.

And as far as the a-hole statement you made ... "your troops" ... If it wasn't for the United States winning both fronts of WW2 you and I would be either goose stepping for the Nazi's and dead at the hands of the Japanese. Go fuck yourself!

[1Dougy85]

@Coolrockndad No they were not warned, 100% they were not warned. I'm not saying they should have been

There are no rules in war so why do you whine about Pearl? Or your troops at the mercy of the Japs? Your troops showed no mercy to wounded or surrendering Jap soldiers and no mercy to their women and children at home in the 70 cities that the US firebombed to ashes.

[Coolrockndad]

@1Dougy85 Please read the top post and yes they were warned; which is more then what the Japanese did on Dec. 7th, 1941.

Let me just add this; if what you say is true, of which it isn't, well to damn bad for all's fair in love and war.

If the Japanese had the A-bomb they would have dropped it on us with no warning so cut the crap.

[1Dougy85]

@Coolrockndad Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not warned in any way for anything. They were not warned they would be conventionally bombed or bombed by a new weapon. If they would have been warned to leave town then they indeed would have. It was planned months before that no warning be given and none was.

Do you say that the Americans that worked in war factories were not innocent people? How about their neighbours that didn't work in those factories?

[jmorello123]

The video and music was a nice complainant to the aircraft and men that changed the nature of war. As one can view history, once the atomic war heads show up and millions of people vaporize, war comes to an end real quick. One would hope the lessons of ww2 could be learned, however, not so, because ww3 is on the way and it's a nuclear holocaust of epic proportions.

[FrancoHitlini]

@twinstu50 Thank you! You know what Stalin was like. No comment on Roosevelt as a leader but he did not always grasp what a underhanded man Stalin was. Churchill understood it and I think, in all honesty, Truman understood it also.

[twinstu50]

Finally. I was fortunate enough to visit the National Museum of the United States Air Force, one year ago.

There are too many words, but not one superlative, that can adequately describe.

With respect to those 'that did', and those 'who will', I make no statement, but merely stand, and look, in awe.

I have never seen Enola Gay.

But, to stand under, and touch 'Bockscar', was pretty big for me. (and my twin brother).

We were born on August, 6th, 1950.