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The Enola Gay (/ əˈnoʊlə /) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare.
Sep 23, 2024 · Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr.
Aug 6, 2015 · On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Twelve men were on that flight. Some chose to keep a low profile and others spoke out about...
Jul 30, 2020 · A single airplane delivered the new weapon of mass destruction—the Enola Gay. At the apex of aviation technology at the time, the aircraft was a B-29 Superfortress, one of a few dozen that...
Aug 5, 2020 · Bound for destiny and Hiroshima, the Enola Gay carried 12 men, hope, and the power for epic destruction. The silver airplane, named for the pilot’s mother, barely got off the ground that...
Aug 5, 2020 · On August 6, 1945, the crew of a modified Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare, called “Little Boy,” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
Nov 25, 2022 · ‘Enola Gay’ carried the first atomic bomb ever used in a military conflict. The plan was to detonate the bomb above the Aioi Bridge, but due to strong crosswinds it missed the target by 240 metres.
Aug 6, 2019 · A fter the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, “ a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants.”. The B-29 bomber stayed airborne, hovering above a terrifying ...
This past exhibition, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, told the story of the role of the Enola Gay in securing Japanese surrender. It contained several major components of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan.
On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day.
