It seemed the director, the writers, and the actors had little or no knowledge about the Manhattan Project and especially the 509th mission details. The 509th Composite Group consisted of about two thousand men, so his personally choosing less than fifty of the two thousand was no big deal. A few of the men I remember he selected included his radio operator, bombardier, navigator, and two other enlisted men who actually flew with him on the mission.
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. It contained several major components of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. Tibbets was portrayed as saying he wanted to pick his own men rather than the ones selected by his superiors. This past exhibition, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, told the story of the role of the Enola Gay in securing Japanese surrender. Though today it rests in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum as a relic of World War II, its. 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. The ''Enola Gay'' was a B-29 bomber that is best known for dropping an atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. This film gets the chronological timing wrong in several places and uses comic relief when none is required. 2) What was the longest battle of World War II 3) What was the first Nazi concentration camp 4) In which battle did the Axis powers lose about a quarter of. The round-trip flight from Tinian to Tokyo took B-29s an average of twelve hours. One of three islands in the Northern Marianas, Tinian is less than forty square miles in size and located approximately 1,500 miles south of Tokyo. Well-intentioned history lesson the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.Production CompaniesViacom. Hey folks, I have read many books and have seen many films about the Manhattan Project and dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. Tinian Island was the launching point for the atomic bomb attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.