Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1789 - 1999. Photographic Prints of Atomic Bomb Preparations at Tinian Island, 1945 - 1945. Photograph of Little Boy Unit Being Hoisted Into Bomb Bay of Enola Gay with Commander A. F. Birch Behind Unit.
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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, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis 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 caused the destruction of about three quarters of the city. Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the wea...
