We met at the Greenwood Lake airshow a few years ago. My connection with the Enola Gay was meeting the navigator on that mission, Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk. The anniversary garnered some media interest, mostly about the survivors and how the city rebuilt itself from the ashes after the first use of the atomic bomb.īut there was little mention of the crew of the B-29, hastily named the Enola Gay after the mother of the pilot, Col.
This past August 6 was the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, which hastened the Japanese surrender during World War II.
