The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed swiftly. Enola Gay faced no resistance as it dropped the bomb.

If the mission fails and they face interrogation ... The weather plane sends a coded message to Enola Gay, advising that Hiroshima is to be the primary target. Tibbets notifies his crew over ...

Early in the morning of August 6, 1946, a US Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay ... mission that would change the history of the world. The plane had been named by Tibbets after his mother ...

On 6 August 1945 at 08:15 Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been used in a war.

World News // 8 years ago Obama meets survivors in emotional visit to Hiroshima memorial President Obama on Friday met with survivors of Hiroshima in a visit that made him the first U.S. president ...

It's 75 years since an American airforce plane called the Enola Gay dropped an atom bomb known as “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima in western Japan. Three days later, on August 9th ...

In 1995, the National Air and Space Museum planned to exhibit items affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, such as victims’ personal effects, along with the Enola Gay B-29 ...

The arming and safety plugs removed from the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima ... mission by Lieutenant Morris Jeppson, the weapons test officer on the B29 bomber 'Enola Gay'.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Enola Gay' dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ending WWII ... German and Japanese cities on massive bombing missions. The B-29s also brought an end to the Pacific ...