GLIDDEN LIBERTY ROCK VETERANS MEMORIAL SIDE A

Re-creation of the drawing by the Des Moines Register’s Ding Darling of Uncle Sam carrying the lifeless body of a soldier, along with a drawing of Merle Hay of Glidden, the first Iowan and one of the first three Americans killed in World War I in November 1917. Also pictured is the nose of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima leading to Japan’s surrender ending World War II. Paul Tibbets, the bomber’s pilot, named the plane for his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was from Glidden.

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