ContentsĪfter the war, the Enola Gay returned to the United States, where it was operated from Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico.
Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target, Nagasaki, being bombed instead. 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. The Enola Gay ( / ᵻ ˈ n oʊ l ə ˈ ɡ eɪ/) 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.
