Enola Gay

American  

noun

1. the name of the American B-29 bomber, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr., that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.

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Enola Gay

The Enola Gay was the plane that dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.

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

OMD formed 46 years had a string of hits including Enola Gay, Souvenir and Joan of Arc.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2024

Instead, the Smithsonian only displayed the Enola Gay, the plane from which the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2021

And the Enola Gay was loaded with extra fuel and the bomb—fifteen thousand pounds more cargo than the B-29 was designed to carry.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin