Enola Gay is a
Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of pilot
Paul Tibbets.
On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to
drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war. The bomb, code-named "
Little Boy", was targeted at the city of
Hiroshima, Japan, and caused extensive destruction.
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