In her interview, Nancy remembered that at Dick’s memorial service, Forrest Haggerty, a friend and author of the book on 43 Seconds to Hiroshima, said that the astronauts “wanted some very nice man to greet them at the Pearly Gates, and that was Dick Nelson. Nelson died on Februat 3:00 a.m., which was three hours before the astronauts on the Space Shuttle Columbia were killed on reentry to the Earth’s atmosphere. It read, ”Results excellent.” Richard Nelson died age 77 of a heart attack on 01-02-2003, as complications of emphysema, his family said. and is buried on the cemetery of Riverside National, California. Richard Nelson, the youngest of the crew, sent a coded message that was forwarded to President Harry Ship Truman. The bomb, code-named “Little Boy”, was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused extensive destruction. When the bomb detonated, about 1,900 feet above the city, Death and burial ground of Nelson, Richard “Dick” H. Is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of pilot Paul Tibbets. On 06-08-1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war. Shumard, Assistant flight engineer, Private First Class Richard H.
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Stiborik, Radar operator, Sergeant Robert H. (23 February 1915 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Duzenberryįlight engineer, Sergeant Joe S. On 06-08-1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war. “Bob” Caron, Tail gunner, Technical Sergeant Wyatt E. Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of pilot Paul Tibbets. Jeppson, Assistant weaponeer, Technical Sergeant Georg R. “Deak” Parsons, Weapaneer and bomb commander, Lieutenant Jacob Beser, Radar countermeasures, also the only man to fly on both of the nuclear bombing aircraft, Second Lieutenant Morris R. Lewis, Co-pilot, Major Thomas Ferebee Bombardier, Captain Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, Navigator, U.S. The crew members were Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets the pilot and Aircraft commander, Captain Robert A. The crew was taken to Tinian, a small island in the Marianas chain, where they practiced missions over Japan. He was the Radio Operator aboard the Enola Gay the plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima on 06-08-1945. He was assigned to the 509th Composite Group, a secret, hand-picked group training for an undisclosed mission. Transferring to radio school in Iowa, he graduated near the top of his class. His plans to become a pilot ended at the Santa Ana Army Air Base because of poor eyesight. One crewman, a Major Ferebee ihad a nervous breakdown after the war, he was the bombardier who actually released the bomb and all. Nelson, Richard “Dick” H, born 26-04-1925 in Moscow, Idaho, was a United States Army World War II Veteran. Taking the question simply as it is asked - the answer is, no.