B-29 "Enola Gay" Signature Series

SKU# V042042

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$299.95

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The B-29 Enola Gay is a Superfortress bomber flown by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) which dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan on the 6th of August, 1945.

On that date, the Enola Gay got 12 flight crews. This flight, crews were Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., the aircraft commander; Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot; Major Thomas Ferebee, bombardier; Captain Theodore Van Kirk, navigator; Lt. Jacob Beser, radar countermeasures and the only man who flew on both nuclear bombing aircraft; and weaponeer and bomb commander Captain William Sterling Parsons, known as Deak by the U.S. Navy.

Theodore Van Kirk, nicknamed Dutch, was a United States Army Air Corps navigator who became famous for his profession as the navigator of the Enola Gay when they attacked Hiroshima and dropped the first atomic bomb there.

Morris Richard Jeppson was a World War II Second Lieutenant for the Army Air Corps. He was the assistant to Captain Sterling as a weaponeer of the Enola Gay when they attacked Hiroshima. His role was to remove the safety plugs from the weapon before it reached the target area.

Handcrafted and handpainted wooden model.

Details:

Scale: 1/72 scale model

Wing Span: 23.75"

Length: 17"

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