The B-29 Enola Gay is a photograph by Jim Thompson which was uploaded on April 16th, 2025.
The B-29 Enola Gay
by Jim Thompson
Title
The B-29 Enola Gay
Artist
Jim Thompson
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Photograph - Digital Photography
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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, 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 destroyed about three-quarters of the city. Wikipedia
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