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 the near-complete destruction of the city. Lewis it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. The Enola Gay () is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. Wikipedia (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: