( 1915 - 2007 ), pilot of Boing B-29 ENOLA GAY, the airplane that dropped the ATOMIC BOMB on HIROSHIMA ( Japan ). ATTACCO ATOMICO NUCLEARE - NUCLEAR ATTACK - WORLD WAR II - WWII - SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE - foto storiche storica - HISTORY PHOTOS - Stati Uniti d'America - bombardamento - aviazione - BOMBA ATOMICA - bomb - attacco aereo - USA - GIAPPONE - GUERRA DEL PACIFICO - 1945, 6 august, Tinian, Northen Mariana Islands, British Commonwelth : The american Colonel PAUL Warfield TIBBETS Jr. In this photo salute just before the takeoff on Hiroshima. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki b ฤก945, 6 august, Tinian, Northen Mariana Islands, British Commonwelth : The american Colonel PAUL Warfield TIBBETS Jr. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. The bomb, code-named 'Little Boy', was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki b The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line.
The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line.