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( 1915 - 2007 ), pilot of Boing B-29 ENOLA GAY, the airplane that dropped the ATOMIC BOMB on HIROSHIMA ( Japan ). Paul W ġ945, 6 august, Tinian, Northen Mariana Islands, British Commonwelth : The american Colonel PAUL Warfield TIBBETS Jr. PICTURED: The ground and flight crew of the B-29 'Enola Gay' after the first Atomic Bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan. From the Pacific island of Tinian to Japan, dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. (Februñ November 1, 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the B-29 pilot of the Enola Gay at the age of 30 on August 6, 1945, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. 01, 1945 - Tuman, Guam - File photo: circa August 1945. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki b Īug. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. The bomb, code-named 'Little Boy', was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki b 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. It was about that time that Tibbets turned the airplane around, so that everybody could get a look at it.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. Flames in different spots would be springing up. "And fires, I could see fires spring up through this undercast, or whatever you would call it, that was covering the city. It looked like bubbling molasses, let's say, spreading out and running up into the foothills, just covering the whole city." I could see the city, and it was being covered with this low, bubbling mass. "As we got further away, I could see the city then, not just the mushroom, coming up.
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I think that's how I described it on the intercom," Caron said years later in an interview. Well, it was white on the outside and it was sort of a purplish black towards the interior, and it had a fiery red core, and it just kept boiling up. I described the mushroom cloud as it grows. Paul Tibbets, who named the B-29 the "Enola Gay" after his mother, told Caron to describe what he saw to the crew over the intercom.
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An aerial view of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.