On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

-On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the "Little Boy" uranium bomb on Hiroshima, killing up to 166,000 people. [caption id="attachment_22456" align ...

Click to open image viewer. Four-engine heavy bomber with semi-monoqoque fuselage and high-aspect ratio wings. Polished aluminum finish overall, standard late-World War II Army Air Forces insignia on ...

He flew the most consequential mission of the atomic age, then quietly arranged to have no place left for the world to stand over his memory. When Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr., pilot of the B-29 Enola ...

May 18, 1945 - The Enola Gay was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Force on May 18, 1945. The B-29 Superfortress was built in Omaha at the Martin Bomber Plant and handpicked by Col. Paul Tibbets, pilot ...

Editor's note: Sixty years after the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, time has caught up with all but three of the 12 crew members. Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk and Morris "Dick" Jeppson ...

Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, is housed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after the ...

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Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...