The memory? Driving around on a quest for Mildred's, a restaurant on the Utah side that makes its own veggie burgers, noticing a historic marker, stopping to read it, and exclaiming, 'THE Enola Gay?' The most important military mission in U. After stops at Guam and the Marianas Islands, the aircraft carried out its historic mission on August 6 and 9, 1945, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On June 27, 1945, it took off from Wendover for the South Pacific. On June 14, 1945, the newly manufactured B-29 was ferried from Nebraska to the army base there. The Enola Gay mission actually launched from Wendover. Along with Smith, Tibbets is an icon in Wendover.The crew didn't just train in Wendover.
Paul Tibbets and the crew of the Enola Gay trained in Wendover to drop the first atomic bombs - dubbed Little Boy and Fat Man - on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
