What was the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb?
Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortress bomber of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) that dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare (“Little Boy”). The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II. The Enola Gay became famous for its part in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In the past part of it was displayed in the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but that special exhibit closed on May 18, 1998. In 2003, the Enola Gay became again viewable to the public at the new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center annex of the N.A.S.M. at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
