The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bomber

Pilot Paul Tibbets waives from Enola Gay’s cockpit  before
taking off for the bombing mission   

 
The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Hiroshima

  
  James Travis "Jim" Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964)

Country/pop singer Jim Reeves, whose biggest hit was 1960’s "He’ll Have
To Go", was killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed near
Nashville. He was 39. Dean Manuel, Reaves’ piano player-road manager,
was also killed in the crash. After Reaves’ death, his widow continued to
release his material well into the 1980s.

 
The wreckage of Jim Reeves private-single-engine plane  

Released in January of 1964

Idlewild Field

President Harry S. Truman helped dedicate Idlewild Field — the airfield that would become John F. Kennedy International Airport. Idlewild Field was named after the
golf course it replaced. The airport went through several name changes before it
was officially changed to JFK one month after the president was assassinated.

   Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937)

Earhart was a noted aviation pioneer and the first woman to receive the U.S. 
Distinguished Flying Cross.

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937
in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central
Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. She was declared legally dead on 
January 5, 1939.

Amelia Earhart waves from her Electra before taking off from Los Angeles, Ca. 
on March 10, 1937