Enola Gay (other)
The ''Enola Gay'' is a USAAF B-29 Superfortress, that dropped Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on Hiroshima in Japan during WWII Enola Gay may also refer to: People * Enola Gay Tibbets, namesake of the WWII nuclear bomber * Enola Gay Gilmore, wife of U.S. basketball player Artis Gilmore Fictional characters * Enola Gay (fictional character), a character from the 1989 Martin Amis novel London Fields (novel), ''London Fields'' Places * Enola Gay Hangar, an aircraft hangar at Wendover Air Force Base, Utah, USA Music Songs * Enola Gay (song), "Enola Gay" (song), a 1980 anti-war song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark * "Enola Gay" (2008 song), an anti-war song by Sugizo * "Enola Gay" a song about the United States' WWII atomic bomb attacks on Japan by folksinger Utah Phillips Other uses * ''Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb'' (film), a 1980 telemovie about the dropping of the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima * ''Enola Gay'' (book), a book by Go ...
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Enola Gay
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 weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target, Nagasaki, being bombed instead. After the war, the ''Enola Gay'' returned to the United States, where it was operated from Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico. In May 1946, it was flown to Kwajalein for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in the Pacific, but was not chosen to make the test drop at Bikini Atoll. Later that year, it was transferred to the ...
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