I thought this aircraft was still in crates! Where is it ? Not sure if your aware but the pilot Col. Paul Tibbets just died a few weeks ago @ the age of 90
The passing of Col. Tibbets was what prompted me to post the picture of the Enola Gay, the B-29 was in crates until it was displayed int the Smithsonian Museum in Norther Virgina.
I am afraid that world is forgetting the message the Enola Gay, Col. Tibbets and his crew delivered not so many years ago. "and I know for sure that some sunny day, someone will press a button and we'll all be blown away." What a shame the world forgets so soon.
The message being "don't mess with the USA"..........ironically when you consider that more people were killed in the conventional bombing raids on Tokyo than in the A bomb attack and that the Kamikaze mentality doomed Japanese citizens to fight to the last woman or child in the event of invasion, the two nukes effectively saved thousands of lives by their use in ending the war.