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Tibbets was quite gracious and friendly to a nobody from Tucson, Arizona. The Enola Gay hangar is a work of emblematic architecture that stands for what some historians call the most important event of the 20th century, the first deployment of an atomic bomb, which continues to shape the history of the world. I did call him but he didn't know of a B29 by that name either so "the Dutchess" remained unidentified. We spent about a half hour talking about it but he didn't recall the name and suggested that it might have been a research B29 out of Los Alamos and suggested I call Chuck Sweeney in Boston and gave me his phone number.
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He was quite helpful and told me about the special production run of B29s in Witchita and how to identify them from a regular production model. I simply called Paul Tibbets on the phone (he had a jet charter company at that time) and explained about my researching a B29 named "The Dutchess". Military budgets that you would think a place of such historical significance would. The scrap dealer thought it had been one of the "atom bomber" planes so I thought that it should be preserved if that story was true and started checking around to see if anyone could confirm it. Re: Wendover Enola Gay Hangar receives Grant Reply 8 on: December 31, 2008, 02:51:01 PM Larry C - You are 100 correct with the notion that there is so much money sloshing around, not only across the street in Nevada, but in most of the different Govt. Only the fuselage was on display, accompanied by basic facts and information about the planes restoration. Unlike the cancelled exhibition, ' Enola Gay ' contained no interpretation, no graphic images, and no melted objects. She was one of 5300 women helping out with the war effort as a rivetor. Martin Bomber Plant riveting for B-26 Marauder medium bombers, B-29 Super Fortresses including the Enola Gay. During the war, she and her young son moved in with family in Omaha so she could work at Glenn L. Tibbets used to be quite accessible- back in the mid- '70s I was researching a B29 nose that had turned up in a local salvage yard with nose art called "The Dutchess". On June 28, 1995, an exhibition, simply titled ' Enola Gay ,' opened at the National Air and Space Museum. Irene was a housewife on the farm until World War II began.