Aircrew who dropped the first atomic bomb. The officers and enlisted men who crewed the B-29 bomber Enola Gay during the first atomic bomb mission on Hiroshima,Japan,on 6 August 1945. The crew members are (standing,left to right): Major Thomas Ferebee (bombardier),Major Theodore Van Kirk (navigator),Colonel Paul Tibbets (pilot),Captain Robert Lewis (co-pilot); (kneeling,left to right): Staff Sergeant George Caron (tail gunner),Sergeant Joe Stiborik (radar operator),Staff Sergeant Wyatt Duzenbury (flight engineer),Private First Class Richard Nelson (radio operator) and Sergeant Robert Shumard (assistant engineer) |