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Enola Gay

 

 

 Enola Gay

Enola Gay is the name of the American B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped - on August 6, 1945 - the first atomic bomb, named Little Boy over Hiroshima.

The aircraft was named after the mother of the pilot Paul Tibbets. In 1995  a film titled 'Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan'  was made on this first attack with a nuclear bomb.

Copyright:  Albert van der Kaap, 2011

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