Above and Beyond (film)

Above and Beyond is a 1952 American war film about Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945.

When families of crew members are brought to Wendover, tensions erupt in the Tibbets family due to Lucys attitude towards her husbands secrecy concerning the mission, as the decision to use the atomic bomb has been made. Flying out to the Pacific island base of Tinian, the B29 designated for the Hiroshima bombing is named the Enola Gay. Note Although the mission is a success, as he wrests the aircraft around to escape the aftershock, the realization of the devastation is brought home as Tibbets sees the flash of the bomb and the subsequent atomic blast. Back on Tinian, the crew is mobbed and although a second mission is mounted, the war has been decided by the actions of the B29 bombers. Tibbets finally returns home, flying first to Washington where he has a joyous reunion with his wife.The film was suggested by screenwriter Beirne Lay, Jr., a Colonel in the Air Force Reserve, to General Curtis LeMay, then commander of the Strategic Air Command SAC, who had discussed with Lay the problem of the high rate of divorce among flight crews. A film depicting the problems might help raise morale. ........

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