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

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Genre	Adventure Drama History
Written by	Millard Kaufman James Poe
Directed by	David Lowell Rich
Starring	Kim Darby Billy Crystal Patrick Duffy
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Franklin R. Levy Richard Reisberg Mike Wise
Producers	Ted Zachary Stanley Kallis
Cinematography	Robert L. Morrison
Editor	Byron Chudnow
Running time	156 minutes
Production company	Viacom Productions
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	November 23, 1980 (1980-11-23)

Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, The Atomic Bomb is a 1980 American made-for-television historical drama film about the B-29 mission by the 509th Composite Group, the Army Air Force unit that dropped the first first atomic bomb to be used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II.

It was based on a book by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts.

Cast

• Kim Darby as Lucy Tibbetts
• Billy Crystal as Lt. Jake Beser
• Patrick Duffy as Col. Paul Tibbetts
• Gary Frank as Maj. Tom Ferebee
• Gregory Harrison as Capt. Bob Lewis
• Richard Herd as General Leslie Groves
• Stephen Macht as William 'Bud' Uanna
• Bill Morey as General of the Army George C. Marshall
• Than Wyenn as Gen. Curtis LeMay
• Robert Pine as Capt. William "Deak" Parsons
• James Shigeta as Field Marshal Abehata
• Robert Walden as Robert Oppenheimer
• Ed Nelson as Pres. Harry S. Truman
• James Saito as Lt. Tatsuo Yamato
• Walter Olkewicz as Sgt. 'Shug' Crawford

External links

• Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb at IMDb