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The plane Enola Gay' - was named after Enola Gay Tibbets- the mother of the pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets, who flew the mission to drop the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

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Q: What was the name of the U.S. Army Air Force B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki?
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