Original U.S. WWII Framed Signatures of Enola Gay Pilot Paul Tibbets & Photographer Armen Shamlian with Photos of Men with Frame - 12 ¼ x 31 ¼” U.S. Artillery They flew C-47s also but

They flew C-47s also but as far as I know not over the Hump

so this is a carbine that saw some service

Wounded soldiers still needed care and rehabilitation

a service member was required to serve in the United States occupation force

as indicated by Anthony Carter in his work World Bayonets 1800 to the Present

Original U.S. WWII Framed Signatures of Enola Gay Pilot Paul Tibbets & Photographer Armen Shamlian with Photos of Men with Frame - 12 ¼ x 31 ¼” U.S. Artillery They flew C-47s also butOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B 29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the destruction of about three quarters