Fred Bock, has been on display at the museum since 1961. The B-29 bomber, named for one of its pilots, Capt. Sweeney, 75, of Milton, Mass., said he loves the Bockscar ``like you love your oldest pair of slippers.″ Parts of the Enola Gay are to be displayed this summer at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Answer (1 of 28): You are kidding, right After completing the near perfect twelve hour long mission to drop an atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima, the Enola Gay returned to Tinian to be greeted by a cheering crowd of two hundred. Three days before the bombing, Sweeney flew the instrument plane that accompanied the Enola Gay when it dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. ``Don’t they have the ultimate responsibility for all the deaths of their countrymen?″ ``They who started the war and then stubbornly refused to stop it must be called to account,″ he said. Captain Theodore van Kirk, the planes navigator that day, said in a 2005 interview: 'I pray no. ``Today, millions of people in America and Southeast Asia are alive because the war ended when it did,″ Sweeney told a crowd of about 400 at the museum Wednesday night. Some of the members later came to express regret, and were haunted by the destruction they caused. Sweeney visited the plane, the Bockscar, for the first time in more than 30 years last week at the U.S. ``There’s no question in my mind that President Truman made the right decision,″ Sweeney said.