It was piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, a 30-year-old colonel from Illinois. Lewis it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb.The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was targeted at the city. On August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Over the summer of 2019, Global Zero explored what led to the bomb’s development, the consequences of its use, and where we’ve come since those fateful days in August. The Enola Gay Was Named After the Pilot's Mother The Enola Gay was the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber plane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. released another atom bomb on Nagasaki, devastating the city and ushering in the nuclear age. United States Army Air Forces Colonel Paul Tibbets named the B-29 Superfortress bomber he had selected after his mother, Enola Gay, before it came off the. As the city disappeared under a mushroom cloud, Captain Robert Lewis – co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the weapon – wrote in his log “My God, what have we done?” Three days later the U.S. In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Japan – the first time such a catastrophic weapon was ever used in conflict. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio after suffering a number of health problems.
