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Historical marker is titled: B-29 Superfortress / 6th Bomb Group / Tinian Island at at the Central Nebraska Regional Airport [ 82 ] At North Field there is the "Marker "No. 1 Bomb Loading Pit" where the Little Boy was loaded into the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay at 15°05′01″N 145°38′03″E / 15.083696°N 145.634057°E / 15. ...
Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1945 after airfield construction, looking north to south. The massive North Field, 313th Bombardment Wing in front, West Field, 58th Bombardment Wing, in background. The 313th BW consisted of 4 B-29 Superfortress Bombardment Groups, later adding the 509th Composite Group, which conducted the Atomic Bomb Attacks against ...
U.S. Marines during the Battle of Tinian in 1944. The atom bomb pit "No.1" on Tinian's North Field, where Little Boy was loaded aboard the Enola Gay. The Japanese military did not garrison Tinian until the latter stages of World War II when the Japanese realized its strategic importance as a possible base for American Boeing B-29 Superfortress ...
The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay as it moved over the bomb pit on the North Field of Tinian air base, North Marianas Islands, early August, 1945. The plane was loaded with an atomic bomb ...
Little Boy unit on a trailer cradle in a bomb pit on Tinian, before loading into Enola Gay ' s bomb bay. On 5 August 1945, during preparation for the first atomic mission, Tibbets assumed command of the aircraft and named it after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who, in turn, had been named for the heroine of a novel.
Parsons (right) supervises loading of Little Boy into the bomb bay of Enola Gay. In the space of a week on Tinian, four B-29s crashed and burned on the runway. Parsons became very concerned. If a B-29 crashed with a Little Boy, the fire could cook off the explosive and detonate the weapon, with catastrophic consequences. [44]
Replacing the pump would take hours; moving the Fat Man to another aircraft might take just as long and was dangerous as well, as the bomb was live. Group Commander Colonel Paul Tibbets and Sweeney therefore elected to have Bockscar continue the mission. [11] [12] Preserved Tinian "bomb pit #2", where Fat Man was loaded aboard Bockscar
Fat Man Replica of the original Fat Man bomb Type Nuclear fission gravity bomb Place of origin United States Production history Designer Los Alamos Laboratory Produced 1945–1949 No. built 120 Specifications Mass 10,300 pounds (4,670 kg) Length 128 inches (3.3 m) Diameter 60 inches (1.5 m) Filling Plutonium Filling weight 6.2 kg Blast yield 21 kt (88 TJ) "Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was ...