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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Example Sentences

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

Kondo stared in hatred at another guest: Capt. Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the bomb.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2020

That afternoon, Little Boy was loaded into Tibbets’s plane, which he had named Enola Gay, for his mother.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin