Enola Gay!

[tony.osborne]

The following link provides a full report with photos and information about the "Enola Gay", undoubtedly the most famous B-29 bomber ever built and the protagonist of one of the main historical events of the Twentieth Century. Hope you enjoy and I count on your visit.

Avia o em Floripa Enola Gay

 

[rightwinger]

Saw it in the Smithsonian

Historic aircraft. I think all of the crew is now dead

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Last living crew member of Enola Gay dies in Georgia at age 93 Fox News

Probably the most famous of any aircraft not just bombers. Everyone into aircraft or history knows this one. ...I would think.

 

[LittleNipper]

So, what was it all for? What has been proven? Was Japan really bad? Did Japan become more like us., or have we become more like them?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

So, what was it all for? What has been proven? Was Japan really bad? Did Japan become more like us., or have we become more like them?

Avoided the obvious related discussions because that's not what the thread's about.

 

[Mad Scientist]

My wife and I took some Japanese friends of ours to Udvar-Hazy to see the museum and of course where Enola Gay is displayed. I asked Mr. Yamada what he thought of it and he replied: "It's safe to say I don't have the same reaction as you do!"

Related thread:
My Wife s Grandparents Were Hiroshima Survivors US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

 

[jwoodie]

So, what was it all for? What has been proven? Was Japan really bad? Did Japan become more like us., or have we become more like them?

Yes, Japan was really bad. They equaled the Nazis in atrocities, but have been given an historical pass because they weren't a "white" country.

 

[R.D.]

 

[whitehall]

Most WW2 nose art featured beautiful babes and whimsical characters. Col. Tibbits chose his mother, Enola Gay. Maybe it says something about his psychological makeup.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

I remember back when Clinton was president, when he was busy rewriting history by appointing marxist pansies into all kinds of administrative jobs at places like the Smithsonian. One of their most inspired propaganda pieces as to why the Enola Gay crew were war criminals, was because of all the "innocent Japanese homemakers" that suffered because of the Bomb. I don't even know where to go with that one. There's not a shred of anything an acerbic wit can grasp with something that incredibly stupid.

Clinton's own White House staff adviser on all issues dealing with WWI & WWII, was Professor Paul Fussell, head of the English department at the University of Pennsylvania. He'd been awarded a Pulitzer and National Book Award for his sociological deconstruction of WWI; why it happened and what it did to Western culture, especially its affects on our language and literature. It was titled 'The Great War and Modern Memory'. He was an infantry lieutenant during WWII. He'd been badly wounded in the war and spent time in a German POW camp. Then he was sent to Okinawa to participate in the looming invasion of mainland Japan. There were 400,000 coffins stacked in great pyramids at the port city of Naha. Allied commanders figured that'd be less than half of what they'd need in the first 16 months of the invasion.

Fussell's books are wonderful, including the book his publisher cobbled together while Clinton's hate groups were busy denigrating The Enola Gay, and America's choice to use the Bomb. It's a collection of essays titled 'Thank God for the Atom Bomb'. It's an excellent historical read. I'd recommend it to the pansy left, but they have an aversion for empirical scholarship at least on a level with the Japanese people themselves. To this day Japanese schools teach their kids that Japan was an innocent victim of racism and imperialism. Not a word about the ten million people the Japanese murdered during WWII; not a word about biological bombing attacks against Chinese cities; not a word about the rape of Nanking. It should have had a subtitle to finish it up. 'Thank God for the Enola Gay' would have been a good one.

 

[regent]

I remember back when Clinton was president, when he was busy rewriting history by appointing marxist pansies into all kinds of administrative jobs at places like the Smithsonian. One of their most inspired propaganda pieces as to why the Enola Gay crew were war criminals, was because of all the "innocent Japanese homemakers" that suffered because of the Bomb. I don't even know where to go with that one. There's not a shred of anything an acerbic wit can grasp with something that incredibly stupid.

Clinton's own White House staff adviser on all issues dealing with WWI & WWII, was Professor Paul Fussell, head of the English department at the University of Pennsylvania. He'd been awarded a Pulitzer and National Book Award for his sociological deconstruction of WWI; why it happened and what it did to Western culture, especially its affects on our language and literature. It was titled 'The Great War and Modern Memory'. He was an infantry lieutenant during WWII. He'd been badly wounded in the war and spent time in a German POW camp. Then he was sent to Okinawa to participate in the looming invasion of mainland Japan. There were 400,000 coffins stacked in great pyramids at the port city of Naha. Allied commanders figured that'd be less than half of what they'd need in the first 16 months of the invasion.

Fussell's books are wonderful, including the book his publisher cobbled together while Clinton's hate groups were busy denigrating The Enola Gay, and America's choice to use the Bomb. It's a collection of essays titled 'Thank God for the Atom Bomb'. It's an excellent historical read. I'd recommend it to the pansy left, but they have an aversion for empirical scholarship at least on a level with the Japanese people themselves. To this day Japanese schools teach their kids that Japan was an innocent victim of racism and imperialism. Not a word about the ten million people the Japanese murdered during WWII; not a word about biological bombing attacks against Chinese cities; not a word about the rape of Nanking. It should have had a subtitle to finish it up. 'Thank God for the Enola Gay' would have been a good one.

It was the pansy-left that authorized the building of the Enola Gay, the building the A-bomb and the dropping of that A-bomb on Japan.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

It was the pansy-left that authorized the building of the Enola Gay, the building the A-bomb and the dropping of that A-bomb on Japan.

Bullshit. The Democratic Party of the 40's was the antithesis of the gaggle of cowardly Marxist queers it is today.

 

[regent]

It was the pansy-left that authorized the building of the Enola Gay, the building the A-bomb and the dropping of that A-bomb on Japan.

Bullshit. The Democratic Party of the 40's was the antithesis of the gaggle of cowardly Marxist queers it is today.

It has already gone down in the history books as the Democratic party, and your opinion may not even have been noted.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Kennedy was the last democrat with any guts. I think the democratic party died with him that day. He was murdered by a communist, now the whole party is communist.

 

[regent]

Kennedy was the last democrat with any guts. I think the democratic party died with him that day. He was murdered by a communist, now the whole party is communist.

The Democratic party has been accused of being communistic since FDR campaigned for Social Security, and that was 1936.

 

[Unkotare]

To this day Japanese schools teach their kids that Japan was an innocent victim of racism and imperialism. Not a word about the ten million people the Japanese murdered during WWII....

Not true, you ignorant douche.

 

[Unkotare]

Enola Gay pilot Tibbets committed to president s orders grandson says The Japan Times

 

[IsaacNewton]

An American doctor that was a prisoner of war in 1945 in Japan was told of a 'new' atomic weapon that had been dropped on Hiroshima. He remarked that the war would be over in a week.

And yes in the end it was better that the bombs were dropped. They likely saved a couple million Japanese lives and half a million U.S. lives.

 

[Unkotare]

An American doctor that was a prisoner of war in 1945 in Japan was told of a 'new' atomic weapon that had been dropped on Hiroshima. He remarked that the war would be over in a week.

And yes in the end it was better that the bombs were dropped. They likely saved a couple million Japanese lives and half a million U.S. lives.

So, would you advocate the deliberate targeting and killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians in a conflict today?

 

[IsaacNewton]

An American doctor that was a prisoner of war in 1945 in Japan was told of a 'new' atomic weapon that had been dropped on Hiroshima. He remarked that the war would be over in a week.

And yes in the end it was better that the bombs were dropped. They likely saved a couple million Japanese lives and half a million U.S. lives.

So, would you advocate the deliberate targeting and killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians in a conflict today?

The ad absurdum hypothetical.

At that time under the circumstances it saved many lives. There are a million hypotheticals that you can construct. If similar circumstances arise then similar solutions may be warranted.

Are you of the opinion that the U.S. military should have invaded Japan at the loss of half a million men instead?