On the 6th of August 1945, 8.15 a.m. in the morning, a Boeing
B-29 Superfortress codenamed “Enola
Gay” dropped on 50 kilo ton atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Becoming the first plane to drop an atomic bomb. The pilot of the “Enola
Gay” is General Paul Tibbets, leader of the 509th Composite Group. The “Enola
Gay” today is located at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Centre.