[Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" parked at air base]

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Title

[Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" parked at air base]

Description

Photograph of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" parked at an air base, circa 1940s. The image is signed by Theodore Jerome "Dutch" Van Kirk, navigator of the "Enola Gay" during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.

Inscription: "Dutch Van Kirk, Navigator - Enola Gay. 6 Aug 1945."

Date

1940s circa

Extent

1 photograph : print ; 8 x 12 in

Bibliographic Citation

The Bruce Whitman Aviation Art Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2021-04-16-A_image_003_01