Morris R. Jeppson papers circa 1922-2010
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Jeppson, Morris R. (Morris Richard), 1922-2010
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Morris Richard “Dick” Jeppson was born on June 23rd, 1922 in Logan, Utah to Robert and Elsie Smith Jeppson. He was one of three boys in his family and grew up in Carson City, Nevada. Dick attended school at Yale, Harvard, and MIT and studied electronics and radars. He served in the military from 1943-1946 and was a test officer on the Enola Gay when it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. He later founded several companies and developed many inventions. He married Molly Ann Hussey and was fathe...
Enola Gay (Bomber)
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The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the destruction of about three quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the wea...
