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No other regular crew member of the Enola Gay did either on that particular morning in August 1945.
7rps-2
Well done historical drama
I suspect some of the subplots in this historical film are total fiction. How could such a huge, dramatic and sombre story receive such treatment? It was common practice for bomber crews in all the theaters of operation in World War II to name their aircraft after sweet hearts, wives or mothers.
The actors in this mini-series do a fine job in trying to express the attitudes of WWII flyers and ground crew.
I suspect the subtitle -- "The Men, The Mission, The Bomb" -- was added to alert younger viewers to the fact that the movie had something to do with a bomb being dropped somewhere. In a knockabout comic scene in "the john" a security man disguised as a plumber has been caught by the aircrew listening in to their conversations.
The scene exactly resembled that in those many many comic movies set the armed forces - from Operation Petticoat to Sargeant Bilko. How the numbers were arrived at is anybody's guess.
One of the crew members had a depressive personality and suffered an un-related nervous breakdown later in life. This film gets the chronological timing wrong in several places and uses comic relief when none is required.
Bob Lewis is portrayed as an old buddy of Paul Tibbets, yet I do not recall ever reading or seeing any documentation that would support such a relationship.
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
9raymond-andre
Very interesting approach to the subject
Hard to believe there are only two comments on this very interesting subject.
What was the attitude of the flight crews who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Streaming platforms for Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb haven’t been announced yet. If our soldiers did anything like that, they'd have one foot in fairydom.
The continuity is flawed. Three days later, Bock's Car dropped another on Nagasaki, and in a few days Japan surrendered and World War II was at an end.
8ca_skunk
Good movie, some inaccurate reviews.
Some of the reviews of this movie are more fabrication than fact.
Pilots nicknamed it "the beast." But, as gigantic as it looks, I managed to climb inside one at the museum at Wright-Patterson in Dayton, Ohio, and it was surprisingly crowded. Surprisingly there is no mention of the subsequent Nagasaki bombing or the tragedy of the USS Indianapolis which played a vital role in transporting the bomb to Tinian and was torpedoed on her return journey.
In the course of their training at Wendover in the middle of Utah's Great Basin desert and later on Tinian Island in the Marianas, comic incidents take place, friendships are tested, and Lt. Col. Tibbets grows ever more contentious.
Some of the lesser characters deliver weak performances. James Shigeta represents the view of the Japanese officer committed to the support of the emperor while others plot to depose Hirohito and continue fighting.
Recent polls suggest that students are no long familiar with even the general outlines of the period. In fact, Tibbets did indicate that he wanted to make personnel selections, but that was probably no more than thirty men he had commanded previously.
In a knockabout comic scene in "the john" a security man disguised as a plumber has been caught by the aircrew listening in to their conversations. (Thats a movie in itself.) The film is not a history lesson. The Japanese pilots left poems and hand-carved dolls for their loved ones.