Lewis trained the crew for the Enola Gay for about a year before the actual bombing, Ms. He had been promoted to captain at the time of the mission. Lewis enlisted in the Air Force as a private in January 1942 and quickly was selected to be a B29 pilot and subsequently picked by Tibbets to be his co-pilot on the top secret mission.
The bomb dropped by the Enola Gay had an explosive power equal to 20,000 tons of TNT, considered inconceivably enormous at that time. 6, 1982, also said that he had no regrets about the bombing because the United States was at war and that he would do it again under the same circumstances. Marcotte said her father died unexpectedly Saturday and had no previous history of heart illness.Įnola Gay pilot Tibbets, looking back on his actions on Aug.
