My father took an original photograph of the Enola Gay. I have copied this from his original photo.
He took this photo himself. He never told me where he was or how he managed to acquire the photograph. I possess the original.
This is the back of the photograph, in his original handwriting, which I have also copied.
How did my father manage to do this? I have no idea. I only found these photographs a few years after he passed away in 2009 at the age of 88.
And this is the song.
BZ
Truly sad that you never had a chance to get ‘the rest of the story’ as it were.
I know. My biggest regret.
But he was one of the Greatest Generation that just didn’t want to talk about it.
BZ
Tinian Island. All branches were there.
Seabees basically built it from the wreckage of what was there.
Here’s a song with a little background about how those four runways got made-
https://youtu.be/rSHza-_W77Q
Thank you KurtP.
BZ
trying with Ghostery off………..
Tinian Island. All branches were there and it was a jumping off point for Bombers to Japan.
Seabees built it up from the ruins of what it was before to a prime airfield.
Here is a song about those airfields-
https://youtu.be/rSHza-_W77Q
My grandfather was one of those Seabees on Tinian. I have his old unit cruise book, which is interesting to say the least. Sure wish I had been interested in that bit of history while he was alive.