[PAR] [TLE] Robert A. Lewis [SEP] Robert Alvin Lewis (October 18, 1917 – June 18, 1983) was a United States Army Air Forces officer serving in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.  He was the co-pilot of the "Enola Gay", the B-29 Superfortress bomber which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. [PAR] [TLE] Enola Gay [SEP] The Enola Gay ( ) 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.
[PAR] [TLE] Robert A. Lewis [ SEP ] Robert Alvin Lewis ( October 18 , 1917 – June 18 , 1983 ) was a United States Army Air Forces officer serving in the Pacific Theatre during World War II . He was the co - pilot of the " Enola Gay " , the B-29 Superfortress bomber which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 . [PAR] [TLE] Enola Gay [ SEP ] The Enola Gay ( ) 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 .
Robert A. Lewis was the co-pilot of the Superfortress bomber that was named after whose mother?
Robert A. Lewis was the co - pilot of the Superfortress bomber that was named after whose mother ?
Colonel Paul Tibbets
Colonel Paul Tibbets