<P> The Enola Gay ( / ɪˈnoʊlə ˈɡeɪ / ) is a Boeing B - 29 Superfortress bomber , named for Enola Gay Tibbets , the mother of the pilot , Colonel Paul Tibbets , who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line . On 6 August 1945 , during the final stages of World War II , it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb . The bomb , code - named `` Little Boy '' , was targeted at the city of Hiroshima , Japan , and caused unprecedented destruction . Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura . Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target , Nagasaki , being bombed instead . </P>
<P> The Enola Gay ( / ɪˈnoʊlə ˈɡeɪ / ) is a Boeing B - 29 Superfortress bomber , named for Enola Gay Tibbets , the mother of the pilot , Colonel Paul Tibbets , who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line . On 6 August 1945 , during the final stages of World War II , it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb . The bomb , code - named `` Little Boy '' , was targeted at the city of Hiroshima , Japan , and caused unprecedented destruction . Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura . Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target , Nagasaki , being bombed instead . </P>
what kind of plane dropped the bomb on hiroshima
what kind of plane dropped the bomb on hiroshima
Boeing B - 29 Superfortress bomber
Boeing B - 29 Superfortress bomber