The Enola Gay did not fly into combat with its unit standard marking - an arrowhead inside a circle. The circle R is the insignia of the 6th Bomb Broup. The Enola Gay only operated with the 509th Composite Group, but wore this marking during it atomic mission as a disguise so that it would not be reported as something unusual. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. Learn more: http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19500100000
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