Flames in different spots would be springing up. "And fires, I could see fires spring up through this undercast, or whatever you would call it, that was covering the city. It looked like bubbling molasses, let's say, spreading out and running up into the foothills, just covering the whole city." I could see the city, and it was being covered with this low, bubbling mass. "As we got further away, I could see the city then, not just the mushroom, coming up. The crew of the Enola Gay did not care that they had caused civilian. The crew of the Enola Gay believed that the atomic bomb was the best way to force Japan’s surrender. The crew of the Enola Gay was responsible for the order to drop the bomb. I think that's how I described it on the intercom," Caron said years later in an interview. The crew of the Enola Gay had participated in atomic testing before their mission. Well, it was white on the outside and it was sort of a purplish black towards the interior, and it had a fiery red core, and it just kept boiling up. I described the mushroom cloud as it grows. Tibbets Jr., the commander of the 509th Composite Group, on, while still on the assembly line.The aircraft was accepted by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) on and assigned to the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, 509th Composite Group. Paul Tibbets, who named the B-29 the "Enola Gay" after his mother, told Caron to describe what he saw to the crew over the intercom. Enola Gay was personally selected by Colonel Paul W. Where was the morality in the bombing of Coventry, or the bombing of Dresden, or the Bataan Death March, or the Rape of Nanking, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor? I believe that when you're in a war, a nation must have the courage to do what it must to win the war with a minimum loss of lives.An aerial view of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In a war, there are so many questionable things done. It's really hard to talk about morality and war in the same sentence. We were fighting an enemy that had a reputation for never surrendering, never accepting defeat. Under the same circumstances - and the key words are "the same circumstances" - yes, I would do it again.Upon the death of fellow crewman Morris Jeppson in 2010, Van Kirk became the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew. The Enola Gay, with a crew of 12, carried out a flawless mission, delivering the bomb on time, almost precisely on target and with no opposition from Japanese fighters. Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk ( 27 February 1921 – 28 July 2014) was a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces, best known as the navigator of the Enola Gay when it dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. CARON This first day cover honoring the Veterans Administration is signed by four crewmembers of the Enola Gay, the Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan First Day Cover Signed: 'Paul W. and others explain, delivering a 10,000-pound bomb to southern Japan was a years-long endeavor that required patience, practice, and precision. In a war, there are so many questionable things done. TIBBETS, THOMAS FEREBEE, JACOB BESER, and GEORGE R. On August 6, 1945, the crew of the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb designed at Los Alamos on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.