When he saw the mushroom cloud rise from the atomic bomb he just dropped.
Enola Gay was named after the mother of the Hiroshima pilot Lieut Col. Paul Tibbets (Enola Gay Haggard)
Paul Tibbets was the pilot .
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Enola Gay was not a person, but the name of the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. The plane itself did not have a fatal incident. It is named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.
B-29 Superfortress named "Enola Gay". It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the bomber's pilot Paul Tibbets.
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Paul Tibbetts
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.
There was not a captain of the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Colonel Paul Tibbets was the pilot who assumed command of the aircraft, he renamed the B-29 after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.
'Enola Gay' was the name of the B-29 Superfortress which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. The pilot of 'Enola Gay', Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., named the aircraft after his mother.
The first movie about the Enola Gay was titled Above and Beyond, starring Robert Taylor as Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay. It also starred Eleanor Parker and James Whitmore, and it was released in 1952. Reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044324/
"Enola Gay" was the name given the USAAF's B-29 bomber that dropped the first-ever atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The pilot, Paul Tibbetts, named the plane for his mother, Enola Gay Tibbetts. (see related question)