Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target, and stroyed most of the cy. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Pl Warfield Tibbets, Jr.
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ENOLA GAY
The Nose Art of Enola Gay and Bockstar. Two of the most famo of B-29 Superfortrs bombers were sent: the first was monly known as Enola Gay, which dropped the “Ltle Boy” atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the send was lled Bocksr. The ground crew of the B-29 “Enola Gay” which dropped the atomic bomb “Ltle Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan.
Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target. ” The Enola Gay—Tibbets had a matenance man pat that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff—was acpanied by var other plan. Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross.