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

Year:

1980

Duration:

156 min

Genres:

Adventure | Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

David Lowell Rich

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1980-11-23

Cast

Actor

Character

Billy Crystal

Dick Christie

Kim Darby

Lucy Tibbets

Patrick Duffy

Colonel Paul Tibbets

Gary Frank

Major Tom Ferebee

Gregory Harrison

Captain Bob Lewis

Stephen Macht

Major Wiiliam 'Bud' Uanna

Walter Olkewicz

Sergeant Shug Crawford

Robert Pine

Captain William 'Deke' Parsons

James Shigeta

Field Marshall Abehata

Robert Walden

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Richard Venture

Alexander Sachs

Richard Herd

General Groves

Henry Wilcoxon

Secretary of War Stimson

Stephen Roberts

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Michael Tucci

Captain Claude Eatherly

Stephen Burleigh

Theodore Van Kirk

Than Wyenn

General Curtis LeMay

James Saito

Lieutenant Tatsuo Yamato

Marion Yue

Aya

Bill Morey

General George Marshall

John Fujioka

General Nagai

Charles Benton

Gary Mike Casper

Michael Currie

Peter Fox

Stanley Grover

Matthew Haggerty

Nancy Hamilton

Lynn Hancock

Bill Hutton

Tony Lucatorto

Will MacMillan

Matt McGowan

Stephen Keep Mills

(as Stephen Keep)

Leslie Moonves

Rummel Mor

Glenn Morrissey

Devon Muir

Richard Mulholland

Ed Nelson

President Harry S Truman

Jed Nolan

Michael Potter

Sweeney

Ned Wilson

Charles Haigh

Officer Giving Camera to Tailgunner (uncredited)

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Trivia

The character of Field Marshal Abehata is a composite of two real-life Japanese officers, Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, commanding general of the 2nd General Army garrisoned at Hiroshima, and a Colonel Abe, commander of the antiaircraft units at Hiroshima (The name "Abehata" is a literal composite.) Abe was indeed killed in the explosion, but Hata survived and spent ten years in prison after the war for war crimes in China.

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Goofs

Just prior to Christmas 1944, Tibbets attends a meeting at the White House with President Roosevelt and several high ranking military and civilian figures in which the casualties sustained by American troops during the battle for Naha on Okinawa are mentioned. The Battle of Okinawa did not start until April 1, 1945 and the city of Naha was not captured until some time after Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945.

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The other pilots refer to Captain Bob Lewis as having been Tibbets' "fair-haired boy on two continents." While Lewis was an experienced test pilot, he had not yet served overseas at that point.

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Major Tom Ferebee has to unroll his autographed "Short Shot" money roll to help Colonel Paul Tibbets and himself remember the last name of Theodore "Dutch" van Kirk. In actuality the three men had flown over 40 combat missions together on the same crew in Europe, and it is highly improbable that either Tibbets or Ferebee, let alone both of them, would have forgotten van Kirk's name.

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Quotes

Colonel Paul Tibbets: Improperly commandeered an airplane...

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