Rouen to Hiroshima: Legacy of the Enola Gay
On August 6th, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay, piloted by Paul Tibbets, dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, bringing the Second World War to an end. But the story began three years earlier, on August 17th, 1942, in French skies over Rouen, when the same pilot led the first daylight-bombing mission against occupied Europe. Soon more high-altitude air raids would be given the green light, and the landscape of Europe and WWII would change forever.
On August 6th, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay, piloted by Paul Tibbets, dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, bringing the Second World War to an end. But the story began three years earlier, on August 17th, 1942, in French skies over Rouen, when the same pilot led the first daylight-bombing mission against occupied Europe. Soon more high-altitude air raids would be given the green light, and the landscape of Europe and WWII would change forever.
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