Enola Gay
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enola-gay-167-7409559
title:
Enola Gay
text:
The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and destroyed about three-quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of
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encyclopedia
description:
US Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 airplane that dropped the first atomic bomb
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay
date created:
2001-10-28T01:16:28Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T08:42:09Z
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