Paul Tibbets (center in photograph) can be seen with six of the aircraft's crew. Official photograph of the Office of Chief of Engineers, now in the collections of the National Archives. The Enola Gay dropped the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Five and a half hours earlier, the B-29 departed from Tinian, a small Pacific. Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, returns after the strike Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. The Enola Gay dropped the 8,900-pound bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy,' over Hiroshima at 8:15 A.M. Image: 77-BT-91: Tinian Island, August 1945. and others explain, delivering a 10,000-pound bomb to southern Japan was a years-long endeavor that required patience, practice, and precision.
Four days later, Japanese submarine, I-58, sank Indianapolis, northeast of Leyte.Ī replica of Little Boy can be found at " In Harm's Way: Pacific" exhibit area in the National Museum of the Navy, Bldg. Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb TV Movie 1980 2 h 36 m IMDb RATING 6.4 /10 294 YOUR RATING Cast & crew User reviews Trivia IMDbPro Adventure Drama History The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. On August 6, 1945, the crew of the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb designed at Los Alamos on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Previously, on July 26, the bomb, along with " Fat Man" was transported to Tinian Island by USS Indianapolis (CA-35) for final assembly. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. A U-235 projectile fired down a gun barrel collided with a stationary element, causing a mass increase leading to nuclear fission. Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target. Nuclear fission was achieved by the collision of two parts of active material (Uranium-235). The gun-type weapon possessed the power of 26,000,000 pounds of high explosives. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopdia Britannica Educational Corporation. The bomb weighed 9,000 pounds and had a diameter of only 28 inches. The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay took off from the Mariana Islands on August 6, 1945, bound for Hiroshima, Japan, where, with the dropping of the atomic bomb, it heralded a new and terrible concept of warfare. The bomb was dropped by a USAAF B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, piloted by U.S. The atomic bomb used at Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, was "Little Boy".