The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.
Acting
Patrick Duffy's stoic Tibbets vs. Crystal's nervous radar officer.
Production
Period-accurical B-29 interiors, shot on actual military bases.
Director
David Lowell Rich
Billy Crystal
Lt. Jacob 'Jake' Beser
Kim Darby
Lucy Tibbets
Patrick Duffy
Col. Paul Tibbets
Gary Frank
Maj. Tom Ferebee
Gregory Harrison
Capt. Bob Lewis
Stephen Macht
Maj. William 'Bud' Uanna
Walter Olkewicz
Sgt. Shug Crawford
Robert Pine
Capt. William 'Deke' Parsons
James Shigeta
Field Marshal Abehata
Robert Walden
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Richard Venture
Alexander Sachs
Richard Herd
Gen. Groves
Henry Wilcoxon
Secretary of War Stimson
Ed Nelson
President Harry S. Truman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Billy Crystal took the role to break out of comedy; he later called it 'the most serious thing I've done that nobody saw.'
Released months after The Day After, this was NBC's quieter nuclear entry—history lesson versus horror show.
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