At the controls is her son, 29-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Paul Tibbets.įor the past few months, the plane has been known simply as ‘No.
On the Pacific island of Tinian, 8,000 miles away, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bearing her name is preparing for take-off. Here, in a specially commissioned piece from Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie, the writers of the acclaimed D-Day: Minute By Minute, is a dramatic reconstruction of the countdown to the Armageddon, as seen through the eyes of those who lived through it.Īt her home in Miami, 57-year-old Enola Gay Tibbets is enjoying a quiet Sunday afternoon. The atomic bomb that destroyed the city of Hiroshima in an instant was dropped 70 years ago this week.
