Last of the Enola Gay crew passes away.

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RE: Last of the Enola Gay crew passes away.

(07-31-2014 01:52 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:
(07-31-2014 01:49 PM)CameramanJ Wrote:
(07-31-2014 01:16 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:
(07-31-2014 12:02 PM)john01992 Wrote: Can't imagine having to be the crew of that mission.
They didn't really know what they had till they dropped it. They were told it was a really big bomb and that they should go full throttle once they dropped it. They were given some preparatory info like "don't look at the flash" that could indicate it was something really special, but till they saw the mushroom cloud they had no real clue what they had been carrying.
Unwitting harbingers of calamitous modernity, it would seem.
I seriously doubt that had they been told exactly what they were doing and what they were carrying was going to do; that a single one of them wouldn't have still gone on the mission. What other weapon of war was ever used only twice and ended a war with not one boot yet on the enemy's soil?
And its never been needed again. Let's pray it never is.

Had I been a member of the crew and known, I would have gone. Absolutely, it's not close.

08-16-2014 05:35 AM