Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:52 pm
Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:07 am
WIXerGreg wrote:
Tue Oct 24, 2017 1:28 pm
AFWhite wrote: Yup...am I missing his name in there somewhere?
From Wiki:
Jacob Beser (May 15, 1921 – June 16, 1992) was a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces who served during World War II. Beser was the radar specialist aboard the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945, when it dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, Beser was a crewmember aboard Bockscar when the Fat Man bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. He was the only person to have served as a strike crew member of both of the 1945 atomic bomb missions.[1]
Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:46 pm
sandiego89 wrote:AFWhite wrote: Yup...am I missing his name in there somewhere?
From Wiki:
Jacob Beser (May 15, 1921 – June 16, 1992) was a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces who served during World War II. Beser was the radar specialist aboard the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945, when it dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, Beser was a crewmember aboard Bockscar when the Fat Man bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. He was the only person to have served as a strike crew member of both of the 1945 atomic bomb missions.[1]
Captain Parsons (USN) and LT Jeppson were also aboard for the Hiroshima mission. Looks like the later nose art photo only lists the "crew" that was aboard that day, with the nose art leaving off Parsons, Jeppson and Beser.
509th Crewing had a few interesting side notes. The strike crew was normally under Lewis, but Group leads Tibbets, Van Kirk and Ferebee served on the strike aircraft that day in their respective roles.
Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:28 pm
Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:49 am
Mark Allen M wrote:Will this one work? .... about as rare a photo that you'll see. Would you like to see more?
Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:27 am
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Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:50 am
AFWhite wrote: I'm a scale modeler and I'm getting reference material together to build "Enola Gay". So for me, the little details are what I'm looking at, i.e. antenna configurations, wear on the aircraft, etc. There's some great photos out there, but you gotta be careful of the time period you're looking at, especially with the 509th birds.......
Wed Oct 25, 2017 10:08 am
sandiego89 wrote:AFWhite wrote: I'm a scale modeler and I'm getting reference material together to build "Enola Gay". So for me, the little details are what I'm looking at, i.e. antenna configurations, wear on the aircraft, etc. There's some great photos out there, but you gotta be careful of the time period you're looking at, especially with the 509th birds.......
Markings on the 509th birds indeed changed quickly. Looks like arrowhead on the Enola Gay was replaced with the Circle R on August 1st 1945, and the name was painted on the afternoon before the strike. It does seem that the fat man symbols (red for atomic strike, black for pumpkins) were added quite quickly after the mission- days? And she soon reverted to the arrowhead, but unsure exactly when.
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