I believe it was Col Paul Tibbets. I will have to check and
verify that.
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393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group
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The Enola Gay was a B-29 bomber assigned to the 509th Composite
Group. The 509th trained extensively at Wendover Field, Utah,
before deploying to the Marianas, where the nuclear missions
originated on Tinian Island.