What Happened to the Enola Gay After Hiroshima (Full Documentary)

On 6 August 1945, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare over Hiroshima. But what happened to the aircraft afterwards? This full documentary follows the Enola Gay's remarkable journey after that morning: its second mission over Japan, its flight home to Roswell, its overlooked role at Operation Crossroads, its years parked outdoors in the open air, its dismantling and decades in storage, and the twenty-year restoration that finally brought it home to the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. Built entirely from real period film footage from Wikimedia Commons, with an original script and English narration. All footage sources and licences are listed in the film's sources file. Chapters: 00:00 The Plane That Changed the World 01:00 A Bomber Like No Other 02:00 Built in Omaha 03:00 Victor 82 04:00 A Mother's Name 05:00 The 509th Composite Group 06:00 Tinian, Summer 1945 07:00 The Morning of 6 August 08:00 Over Hiroshima 09:00 The First Atomic Bomb in War 10:00 Three Days Later 11:00 The War Ends 12:00 The Flight Home 13:00 Roswell, New Mexico 14:00 A New Mission: Crossroads 15:00 Kwajalein 16:00 Not Chosen 17:00 Back to California 18:00 Davis-Monthan 19:00 A Year in Service 20:00 Given to the Smithsonian 21:00 Orchard Place, 1949 22:00 Pyote, Texas 23:00 Andrews Air Force Base 24:00 Out in the Weather 25:00 Taken Apart 26:00 To Suitland 27:00 The Long Wait 28:00 Restoration Begins 29:00 Twenty Years of Work 30:00 The Exhibition Controversy 31:00 The Fuselage on Display 32:00 What the Argument Was About 33:00 Reunion 34:00 The Move to Chantilly 35:00 Udvar-Hazy Opens 36:00 The Plane Today 37:00 The Last of the Crew 38:00 What the Plane Means Now 39:00 After Hiroshima