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The Enola Gay (/ əˈnoʊlə /) is a Boeing B Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.

On 6 Augustduring the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. Enola Gay, the B heavy bomber that was used by the United States on August 6,to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

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It was the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target, and it destroyed most of the city. On August 6,Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., in command of the Superfortress Enola Gay, dropped a highly enriched uranium, explosion-type, "gun-fired," atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The Enola Gay was built under a program code named "Silverplate" to produce Gay bombers specially modified for atomic bombing missions.

The Enola Gay was part of a second batch of fifteen improved Silverplate bombers built emula February and June The refurbished Enola Gay, the B Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on Aug. 6,on Hiroshima, Japan, sits on display in the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Mario A. Chester A. McLenonCpl. John E. Glenn S. Download Curator's Viewpoint.

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