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Enola gay crew deaths
ATLANTA – The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hastening the end of World War II and forcing the world into the atomic age, has died in Georgia.
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The plan was set, and now there was no turning back. The countdown had begun for Capt.
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The Enola Gay carried the weapon, nicknamed "Little Boy." It weighed nearly 10, pounds and could produce an explosive force equal to an estimated 15, to 20, tons of TNT.
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The last member of the American crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during the second world war died in Georgia. The last surviving member of the US crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hastening the end of World War II and forcing the world into the atomic age, has died in the southern state of Georgia.
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When Colonel Paul Tibbets and his crew departed their base on the island of Tinian in the Marianas on the morning of August 6, , their Boeing B Superfortress bomber carried with it a weapon that would change the world. Christened Enola Gay by the pilot, in honor of his mother, the plane was to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The Enola Gay was named after the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets. He had been the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew since when Morris Jeppson, the assistant weaponeer, died.
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Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. He remembers seeing the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima and feeling the shock wave of the blast, and shares his views on the role of morality during war.
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The last surviving member of the American crew who dropped the Hiroshima nuclear bomb that killed , people and triggered the end of the Second World War has died.
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Eighty years on, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima continues to provoke fierce debate, reflection, and deep moral inquiry. How did the thirteen men aboard the Enola Gay — the US aircraft that delivered the bomb that killed at least , people — live with the knowledge of what they had done?
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