COL.TIBBETS was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, MAJOR FEREBEE was the bombardier and CAPTAIN VAN KIRK was the navigator. This action, and the dropping of another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki three days later, was credited with hastening the end of World War II. Over 78,000 people were killed by the searing heat and gamma rays, and the city, which had been home to a garrison of 150,000 Japanese troops, was virtually destroyed. Forty-three seconds later, Hiroshima ceased to exist as a city and the course of warfare changed forever." "Little Boy," a9,000 pound uranium-235 core-fissionable atomic bomb exploded 1,890 feet over Hiroshima, Japan's seventh largest city. The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. With Billy Crystal, Kim Darby, Patrick Duffy, Gary Frank. Fifty years allows for a great deal of second-guessing and. Tibbets and the crew of the ENOLA GAY 44-86292, a B-29 45-MO, released the first atomic weapon nicknamed 'Little Boy'. Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb: Directed by David Lowell Rich. The Enola Gay, her crew, and the bomb she dropped remain for some/many an issue left unresolved. Color, 24x18 overall, image 21x13 (one surface). Lithograph signed "Theodore J Van Kirk", "Paul W. Photographs were taken of the Enola Gays crew, after which they climbed. Signed by the Enola Gay's pilot, bombardier and navigator on this historic mission. By the time Farrell did his duty and cabled Groves about the important change. Large 24x18 color lithograph, entitled Atomic Warfare is Born, of the plane Enola Gay just moments after dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima - and with an ominous mushroom cloud towering in the background. ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS, THEODORE VAN KIRK, THOMAS FEREBEE