Sunday, August 31, 2025
On August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II, this B-29 bomber dropped and detonated the world's first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. It was named Enola Gay after the mother of its pilot, Paul Tibbets.It is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, a satellite facility of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
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