Editing Enola Gay (section)

===Hiroshima mission===
[[File:ThomasFerebee.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Bombardier [[Thomas Ferebee]] with the [[Norden Bombsight]] on [[Tinian]] after the dropping of the [[Little Boy]]]]
''Enola Gay''{{'}}s crew on 6 August 1945 consisted of 12 men.<ref name="Cooper">{{cite web |last=Cooper |first=Sgt. Jean |url=http://www.mphpa.org/classic/CG/Photo-Pages-3/CGP-574.htm |title=Photo: P-574 (Enola Gay Crew Members) |publisher=Atomic Heritage Foundation |access-date=3 August 2010 |archive-date=22 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322042343/http://www.mphpa.org/classic/CG/Photo-Pages-3/CGP-574.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12225295/atom_bomber_crew_from_eight_states/ |title=Atom Bomber Crew From Eight States |newspaper=[[The Miami News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=8 August 1945 |access-date=8 July 2017 |via=newspapers.com |archive-date=24 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924183129/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12225295/atom_bomber_crew_from_eight_states/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The crew was:<ref>Campbell, 2005, p.&nbsp;30.</ref>

* [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Paul Tibbets|Paul W. Tibbets Jr.]]&nbsp;– pilot and aircraft commander (1915-2007)
* [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]] [[Robert A. Lewis]]&nbsp;– co-pilot; ''Enola Gay'''s regularly assigned aircraft commander* (1917-1983)
* [[Major (rank)|Major]] [[Thomas Ferebee]]&nbsp;– [[Bombardier (aircrew)|bombardier]] (1918-2000)
* Captain [[Theodore Van Kirk|Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk]]&nbsp;– [[Flight officer|navigator]] (1921-2014)
* [[Captain (United States O-6)|Captain]] [[William Sterling Parsons|William S. "Deak" Parsons]], USN&nbsp;– weaponeer and mission commander (1901-1953)
* [[First Lieutenant]] [[Jacob Beser]]&nbsp;– [[Electronic countermeasures|radar countermeasures]] (also the only man to fly on both of the nuclear bombing aircraft.{{sfn|Polmar|2004|p=38}}) (1921-1992)
* [[Second Lieutenant]] [[Morris R. Jeppson]]&nbsp;– assistant weaponeer (1922-2010)
* [[Staff Sergeant#U.S. Army|Staff Sergeant]] [[George R. Caron|Robert "Bob" Caron]]&nbsp;– tail gunner* (1919-1995)
* Staff Sergeant Wyatt E. Duzenbury&nbsp;– [[flight engineer]]*
* [[Sergeant]] Joe S. Stiborik&nbsp;– [[radar]] operator*
* Sergeant Robert H. Shumard&nbsp;– assistant flight engineer*
* [[Private First Class]] Richard H. Nelson&nbsp;– [[Very high frequency|VHF radio]] operator*

Asterisks denote regular crewmen of the ''Enola Gay''.

Of mission commander Parsons, it was said: "There is no one more responsible for getting this bomb out of the laboratory and into some form useful for combat operations than Captain Parsons, by his plain genius in the ordnance business."<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Air Power History |first=Darrell F. |last=Dvorak |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=4–17 |issn=1044-016X |url=http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-150624-031.pdf |title=The First Atomic Bomb Mission: Trinity B-29 Operations Three Weeks Before Hiroshima |date=Winter 2013 }}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>