75 Years Ago: The Flight of the Enola Gay | Natnal Air and Space Mm

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On Augt 6, 1945, the crew of a modified Boeg B-29 Superfortrs named Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ed warfare, lled “Ltle Boy,” on the cy of Hiroshima, Japan.

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Tibbets, Jr., mand of the Superfortrs Enola Gay, dropped a highly enriched uranium, explosn-type, "gun-fired, " atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather rennaissance aircraft that day. He named the B-29 that he flew on 6 Augt Enola Gay after his mother.

Enola Gay is a mol B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292. The airplane's last flight end on December 2 when the Enola Gay touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.

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