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Petersen has led the effort to preserve the hangar and other properties at the historic airfield. When deployed to the Pacific the Enola Gay was assigned a Victor number, originally No.
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On April 28, 2009, AHF's Cindy Kelly participated in an event highlighting the award with several Manhattan Project veterans and Jim Petersen, director of the Wendover Airfield and president and founder of the Historic Wendover Airfield Foundation. The Enola Gay's complete serial number (B-29-45-MO, 45-86292) indicated that it was a B-29 built at the Martin Omaha plant built in block 45, and was ordered in fiscal year 1945. In 2009, a hangar at the base dubbed The Manhattan Project's Enola Gay Hangar was listed as. It was the training site of the 509th Composite Group, the B-29 unit that dropped the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. During World War II it was a training base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. With its colorful Enola Gay hanger and significant local support, the National Trust selected Wendover Airfield as the "poster child" for the Manhattan Project sites in danger of being lost. Wendover Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Utah now known as Wendover Airport. In early 2009, the Atomic Heritage Foundation nominated the collective Manhattan Project sites for the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Some of the highlights of the visit to the Udvar-Hazy center included seeing the Discovery up close, the Enola Gay, (see this interesting link to a view from the cockpit), a P-47 Thunderbolt from Myron Asper's brother Harold's squadron, Eddie Rickenbacker's WWI Uniform, the X-35B Joint Strike Force Fighter and many others. The film gives a glimpse into the fascinating history of the base and the crucial role it played in the Manhattan Project.
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The Historic Wendover Airfield FoundationĀ released a short filmĀ on the history of Wendover and efforts to preserve it. Tibbets stands next to the Boeing B-29 'Enola Gay' that he piloted on its historic atomic bombing mission over Hiroshima, Japan. Wendover was used by the Air Force until 1969, and in recent years there have been efforts to preserve and restore its many historic properties, including the hangar that housed the Enola Gay during training. The Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, stands on the runway at Tinian following the raid. As the home of the 509th Composite Group and the 216th Army Air Forces Base Unit, Wendover Airfield played a key role in the Manhattan Project.