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Have You heard of the B-29?
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Have you heard of these B-29's
Of World War II fame?
There was the "Enola Gay"
Which set Hiroshima aflame.
Colonel Paul Tibbets of Memphis TN,
Flew this plane from Tinian,
To drop the very first
Atomic bomb on the Isle of Japan!
From 31, 600 feet at 8:15 a.m.
And seven seconds past,
He loosed the dreaded load
And that was her last!
Down, down, the "Thin Man" fell,
' Til and when the Uranium split
There was a flash from hell,
And a tremendous scorching from the pit!
The date, August 6, of 1945
In seconds thousands lost their lives!
What is this thing we've loosed
To kill husbands and their wives?
Have you heard of the B-29
By the name of "Bock's Car"?
It came to fame on August nine
When Nagasaki felt its jar!
Now "Bock's Car" dropped the bomb
That we called the "Fat Man".
It was plutonium, not uranium,
That scorched the city's land!
Both these famous planes and their crews,
Were from the 509th Bomb Group,
Of the 313th Wing, twentieth Air Force,
And their pilots could make them do a loop!
From Wendover Field they came
To Tinian's Island site,
Prepared to end World War II
And to close the shade of night!
On August 15th date of forty-five
Japan agreed to end the fight that day;
And on the Battleship Missouri , Sept. 2nd
They signed the papers in Tokyo Bay!
I loved the 509th of World War II fame,
Have stood in the bomb bay
Of that great and noble ship,
The one we call the Enola Gay!
There were other super bomber B-29's,
Which made a difference in their day;
Their names are now forgotten by all,
Because the War has gone away!
Yet some lie at the bottom of the sea,
Or on some high mountain side,
Their props all bent and mangled,
But where they lie, they lie in pride!
The War is passed, some men returned
To homes and loved ones from whence they came,
But to all who saw men bleed and die
And witnessed airmen fall from the sky,
Never shall remain the same,
For memories are not a winning game! |
By
C. Douglas Caffey
Copyright 2001
Listed March
12, 2009 |
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Author's Bio:
C. Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He
served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group,
58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States
Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic
bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in
the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug
is a former college dean. He started writing poetry
several years ago and though he doesn't claim to be a
poet, he does claim to write from the heart. |
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