The pilot was Paul w. Tibbets.
Enola gay.
Enola Gay
The Enola Gay is the B-29 Stratofortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, known as "Little Boy", on Hiroshima, Japan during WWII on August 6, 1945.
The first atomic bomb used in war was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The delivery method was via an airplane named the 'Enola Gay'.
Those airplanes were named, Enola gay and Bockscar.
The bomb that the Enola Gay dropped was the Little Boy
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.
"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)
The "Enola Gay"
The planes name was "The Enola Gay" it was a B-29 bomber
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. The bomber that dropped it was nicknamed the "Enola Gay", named after the pilot's mother. Three days later, the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and the bomber in that case was "Bockscar" ("boxcar"), a pun based on the pilot's name, Bock.
The Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy", to be used in war, by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II.