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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

TV Film (1980)

Starring:
Billy Crystal (Lieutenant Jacob 'Jake' Beser)
Patrick Duffy (Colonel Paul Tibbets)
Stephen Macht (Major Wiiliam 'Bud' Uanna)
James Shigeta (Field Marshall Abehata)

The choice to drop the atomic bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Lockheed F-5G Lightning

Lockheed F-5G Lightning, built as a P-38L, s/n 44-53247, c/n 8502. Destroyed by hanger heat on 17th May 1990.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

From The Last Bomb.

Unidentified Aircraft

Several kamikaze aboard unidentified aircrafts.

Yokosuka D4Y Suisei

Same footage in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Nakajima B6N Tenzan

North American T-6 (acting as Mitsubishi A6M Zero)

Probably a modified North American T-6 acting as the famous Imperial Navy fighter.

Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate

Boeing B-29-45-MO Superfortress

Enola Gay : look at Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Fieseler Fi 103

Alias V1 for most people. Seems to be a mock-up, not a surviving example.


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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980)
Genre:Adventure, Drama, History, War
Story:Well-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
Style: rough, bleak, important, captivating, realistic
Plot: world war two, atomic bomb, planet war, usa history, bomber, war, heroes, military, battles, nuclear holocaust, danger, moral dilemma, secret place, wartime life, super weapon, against humanity, state affairs, nuclear

Synopsis

Their innocence changed the society forever.

The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.

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"Enola Gay" handelt vom Atombombenabwurf über Hiroshima und von der Vorgeschichte dazu. Obwohl altbekannt, gelingt David Lowell Rich ein spannender Production, der mit einem jungen Billy Crystal besetzt ist und Kim Darby, deren Karriere nach "Der Marshal" (Hathaway 1969) nicht so richtig durchstarten wollte. Der Film blendet jedoch völlig aus, wie überflüssig perish US-Atombombenabwürfe über Japan waren - Japan war bereits so gut wie besiegt, die Sowjets befanden sich schon auf Teilen japanischen Gebietes. Auch die dunkle Seite des Bomberpiloten Paul Tibbets, der Jahrzehnte später noch stolz auf den Abwurf war, obwohl er wusste, dass bis zu 166000 Todesopfer, überwiegend Zivilisten, die Folge seiner Tat waren. Weil der Clip das Geschehen als militärische Notwendigkeit zeigt, obwohl der Krieg so oder so vor seinem Ende stay , ist er ein Propagandafilm.

Interesting and well made for TV feature on the dropping of the first atomic bomb by the En

I first saw THE BEGINNING OR THE END (1947) in 2012thanks to Turner Classic Movies. I've found it interesting that in the ensuing years I hold received numerous emails from professors and students wanting to recognize how to obtain this MGM film on the creation of the atomic bomb.

Happily this film is now easily available to both academics and a wider audience thanks to the Warner Archive. The movie was recently released as part of a "wave" of films directed by Norman Taurog.

I've previously reviewed Taurog's LUCKY NIGHT(1939) and PLEASE BELIEVE ME(1950); still ahead in my review stack is the fourth and final film of the batch, William Powell in THE HOODLUM SAINT (1946).

THE Commencing OR THE END, the story of the Manhattan Project, was released early in 1947. Though it's a fictionalized telling, one of the most interesting aspects for me was simply seeing how the story was depicted, roughly 18 months after the dropping of the atomic bombs. The film mixes facts with plenty of conjecture about what the atomic bomb would ultimately mean for the world, hence the movie's title.

It's an engrossing film with a large cast of excellent actors. Brian Donlevy plays Maj. Gen. Leslie Gro