Enola
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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It has been a location for film and television productions including Enola Holmes, Howards End, Vanity Fair and Ghosts, where the building was renamed Button House.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
The name was not a reference to homosexuality, but was given to the B-29 bomber by the pilot in honor of his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025
Seventy years earlier, the Enola Gay — the B-29 super fortress that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan — was built inside these walls.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
Tinian was the launching point for the Enola Gay atomic bomb attacks against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023
Now he was Paul Tibbets stands in front of the Enola Gay on Tinian Island, August 6, 1945. back in the States working as a test pilot, helping engineers design the new B-29 bomber.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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