Originally Posted by 12344mag
Originally Posted by ccrifles
My Father was a B29 navigator. He flew on both atom bomb missions and many others. He is 95 and still alive. He retired from the USAF in 1968, and has been getting a check ever since, hahahahaha.



Awesome! this is the crew of the Enola Gay, can you please point him out for us.

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There were like 5 or 6 planes that flew on the missions, obviously only one weapon carrier, but the rest flew in and did different types or recon and blast observations. A number of those planes flew on both strikes.

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