509th Composite Group

There on the same day the Target Committee was meeting, this time with Paul Tibbets as well as Tolman and Parsons on hand. Much of the discussion concerned Tibbets training program for the 509th Composite Group. He had sent his best crews to Cuba for six weeks to give them radar... 

A directive, written by Groves and issued by Stimson and Marshall on July 25, ordered the Army Air Force s 509th Composite Group to attack Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, or Nagasaki after... 

The 509th Composite Group is ordered to attack Japan with an atomic bomb after about August 3. 

In September the US Army 509th Composite Group begins training for the mission of dropping atomic bombs on enemy cities. 

On June 10, 1945, the planes of the 509th Composite Group flew to Tinian, a Pacific Ocean island about 1,600 miles (2,575 km) from Japan, where the crew training continued. During these practice runs over open ocean, the planes dropped dummy mock-ups of Fat Man and Little Boy. Meanwhile, the pilots and other crew members were still kept ignorant of the true nature of the payloads they were going to be asked to carry. 

Paul Tibbets The commander of the US Army s 509th Composite Group, Tibbets elected to fly the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Tibbets named the B-29 bomber the... 

Wendover, Utah, where the U. S. Army Air Corps airfield was used by the 509th Composite Group as part of Project Alberta. ... 

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