Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, The Atomic Bomb is a 1980 American made-for-television historical drama film about the B-29 mission by the 509th Composite Group, the Army Air Force unit that dropped the first first atomic bomb to be used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II.

It was based on a book by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts.

Cast

Kim Darby as Lucy Tibbetts
Billy Crystal as Lt. Jake Beser
Patrick Duffy as Col. Paul Tibbetts
Gary Frank as Maj. Tom Ferebee
Gregory Harrison as  Capt. Bob Lewis
Richard Herd as General Leslie Groves
Stephen Macht as William 'Bud' Uanna
Bill Morey as General of the Army George C. Marshall
Than Wyenn as Gen. Curtis LeMay
Robert Pine as Capt. William "Deak" Parsons
James Shigeta as Field Marshal Abehata
Robert Walden as Robert Oppenheimer
Ed Nelson as Pres. Harry S. Truman
James Saito as Lt. Tatsuo Yamato
Walter Olkewicz as Sgt. 'Shug' Crawford

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1980 films
1980 television films
American television films
American war films
Films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Films directed by David Lowell Rich
Films with screenplays by James Poe
Japan in non-Japanese culture
NBC network original films
Pacific War films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films