Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Super fortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of pilot Paul Tibbets  (shown below). On 6 August 1945 Tibbets and his flight
crew dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, thus leading to the end of the war.

Tibbets was just 29 years old at the time. The Enola Gay became the first aircraft to
drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war. The plane, now housed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, has been restored, and Tibbets attended
the unveiling in 2003. 

                                     
                                   Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets

              (born February 23, 1915 – died November 1, 2007)

 Enola Gay on display in the Steven F. Udar-Hazy Center at the Smithsonian Museum 

The 393rd Bombardment Squadron crew of the B-29 Enola Gay. 

During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two
atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first
on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945. For six months prior to the bombings, the United States fire-bombed 67 Japanese cities and  calling  for the surrender of Japan in a declaration issued on July 26, 1945. The Japanese
government ignored the ultimatum and by executive order of President Harry S.
Truman, the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” (shown below) on the
city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of the
second atomic bomb, “Fat Man” over Nagasaki on August 9. Within the first two
to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people
in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki,with roughly
half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. The Enola Gay (above)
dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima.

The atomic bomb “Little Boy”

 
The explosion of “Little Boy”

Hiroshima after the bombing

Martin Sheen (born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez) is known for his
role in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now and the NBC
television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006. He is considered
one of the best actors who was never nominated for an Academy Award
despite his acclaimed performances.

Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now

Sheen as President Josia “Jed” Bartlet in The West Wing

Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto) began singing at an
early age. He later fought in the final stages of World War ll as a U.S. Army
infantryman in Europe. Upon returning to civilian life Bennett developed his
singing skills and soon signed with Columbia Records where he had his first
number one song  with “Because of You” in 1951. In 1962, Bennett recorded
his famous signature song, “I Left My Heart In San Francisco”. Bennett is also
a serious and accomplished painter, creating works under the name Benedetto.

Tony Bennett holds one of the fifteen Grammy Awards he has won.

April 1943, 25-year-old Lt. John F. Kennedy arrived in the Pacific and took command
of the Patrol Torpedo boat, PT 109. Just months later,the most famous collision in
U.S. Navy history occurred at about 2:30 a.m. on August 2, 1943 when the boat
collided with a Japanese destroyer, killing two of his men.

Jimmy Dean’s PT-109 was one of the five top forty songs he had in
1962 and was the biggest hit, reaching the top ten on the charts.The
above video contains scenes from the 1963 biographical film PT-109
staring Cliff Robertson as Lt. John F. Kennedy.