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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.

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What was the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb?

B-29 Bomber, named Enola Gay


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What kind of bomber dropped the first atomic bomb?

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When the first atomic bomb dropped?

that was the bomb dropped over Hiroshima on August 6 1945


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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.


What plane dropped the a bombs on Japan?

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.


What war was the first nuclear war?

Yes because the American bomber aircraft dropped two atomic bombs in Japan but now the atomic bombs are called nuclear bombs, the first nuclear weapon was ever invented.


The bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb?

B-29 Superfortress named "Enola Gay". It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the bomber's pilot Paul Tibbets.


How did the atomic bomb wings of hero Shima and Nagasaki illustrate the idea that world war 2 was a total war?

an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.


Who did the American dropped the first atomic bomb?

the first US delivered atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima from a B29 superfortress nicknames the Enola Gay. It was piloted by Capt Paul Tibbets.


What is the importance of the 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.


Which US aircraft bombed Hiroshima?

The Enola Gay is the name given to the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy"