At five-year intervals in the previous thirty-five years they had met in other cities to reminisce and exchange news. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt.Late in the summer of 1980 a small band of men approaching retirement age convened in Washington. This portrait of Gackenbach was taken on Spet. He is the last surviving crew member of the B-29s that flew the missions. Gackenbach, was the navigator aboard the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb, during the mission to Nagasaki on Aug. Kenny Holston) Russell Gackenbach, the navigator aboard the B-29 Superfortress, Necessary Evil, holds a photo he took during the atomic bombing mission over Hiroshima, Japan on Aug.
(UPI Photo/Michael Kleinfeld) Visitors to the newly opened National Air and Space Museum's Steven Udvar-Hazy Center look at the B-29 Superfortress, the 'Enola Gay', on Decemin Chantilly, Virginia.
Visitors to the newly opened National Air and Space Museum's Steven Udvar-Hazy Center look at the B-29 Superfortress, the 'Enola Gay', on Decemin Chantilly, Virginia.