It would be telling if one of the crew members who couldn't see out were to describe seeing the blast, mushroom cloud, etc. I don't think the radio operator was one of the regular crew members to be replaced on the Enola Gay. When he went into the bomb bay area, he could see down through the open bomb bay door. Maybe propoganda leaflets I don't remember. He had some detail, to throw something out. On this particular mission, this radio operator said he couldn't see out, until the went through the hatch into the bomb bay area. Reading another account about a bombing mission in Japan, written by the radio operator, he said that you could not see out of the radio room. It seems that the members which Tibbets replaced for this Hiroshima bombing were the ones that could see out. That is to say there was no window, or port. Rerevisionist Site Admin Posts: 1056 Joined: 11:40Īnother thing that might be interesting to check into in relation to the crew members, is that some crew members on a B-29 could see out, but some other members could not. He also doesn't say anything about the navigation if your entire job was navigation, surely you'd say something about maps, radar, your elevation, what it's like in a B29, how you navigate at night, how good the voice contact was with the other crew, whether there was a jet stream maybe (I believe discovered subsequently) - just some little detail? So who took the film of the supposed mushroom cloud, far below? He doesn't say, and doesn't seem to have even thought about it. The cloud was already higher than their altitude. After they were sure there'd be no more shocks, they looked round. At about 2 mins, quite near the end, he describes a jolt ('measured at' something like 3g) after about 45 seconds after the supposed bomb was supposedly dropped. 'Dutch van Kirk' the (supposed) navigator. re=related "ENOLA GAY NAVIGATOR DESCRIBED DROPPING FIRST ATOMIC BOMB"Īnother youtube, which I noticed on the same page as your video. As far as I can determine, none of these four were on the plane during that practice drop.įirstClassSkeptic Posts: 671 Joined: 21:19 The crew that dropped the 'dummy' Little Boy was the regular crew under the command of Lewis. They replaced the regular crew members on the plane, which Tibbets called Enola Gay, to supposedly drop LIttle Boy on HIroshima, if they actually made it to Hiroshima. The other crew members, except for the tail gunner, don't seem to be as public.Īlso, these weren't the regular crew members.
These four crewmen, Tibbets, Pearson, Zirk and Ferebee, often made public appearances. There is a nightmarish, creepy quality to it. Notice the deadpan, very scripted speach and actions of the people. Also, he seems very tense until he says the word 'fairyland', and then he seems to relax a bit. He calls the atomic bomb a 'fairyland' project.
Listen carefully to the general who speaks first.