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The name of the pilot who flew the first plane to drop an atomic bomb is Colonel Paul Tibbets. He was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb.
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The Enola Gay dropped "little boy", The Bockscar dropped "Fat man". The Enola Gay was the first plane to drop an Atom bomb and was famous for taking part in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The nickname of the American plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshim, Japan was called the "EnolaGay"
The bombers that dropped both atomic bombs flew from the island of Tinian. This was also the base for bombers that flew many of the "thousand plane" firebombing attacks every night (each of which did similar damage to the atomic bombs).
The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb.
On 6 August 1945 a single B-29 bomber left from the island of Tinian in the Marianas and dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The first atomic bomb test was done on a 100 foot tall tower, not dropped from a plane (July 16, 1945).The only atomic bombs used in war were dropped from planes (August 6 & 9, 1945).The first atomic bomb test after the end of WW2 was dropped from a plane (July 1, 1946).
The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb, on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.The bomber named Bockscar dropped the second bomb, on Nagasaki on August 9. Both aircraft were B-29 bombers that operated from a special unit; the 509th Composite Bomb Group, flying from Tinian Island in the Marianas.
The plane that dropped the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima was a Boeing B-29 called The Enola Gay. The plane that dropped the second Atomic Bomb was aB-29 bomber called The Bockscar.
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the plane was destroyed by the united states to show no physical evidence of the bombings
B-29 Bomber, named Enola Gay
name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb
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