A B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan. Hiroshima had a civilian population of almost 300,000 and was an important military...
The US Army B-29 Superfortress, named Enola Gay (named after the pilot's mother), dropped history's first Nuclear Weapon on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
By executive order of President Harry S. Truman the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of "Fat Man" over...