What is Enola Gay?
[[File:Tibbets-wave.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Tibbets waving from the Enola Gay to photographers before taking off on the mission to drop the atmoic bomb on Hiroshima.<ref name=grantfact/><ref name=atomicarchive>{{cite web|title=Col. Tibbets aboard the Enola Gay|publisher=Atomic Archive|accessdate=2011-03-01|url=http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/twocities/hiroshima/image3.shtml|archive-date=2011-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204145203/http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/twocities/hiroshima/image3.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>]] The '''Enola Gay''' is a [[B-29 Superfortress]] [[Bomber]]. This plane is famous for dropping the first [[atomic bomb]] (named [[Little Boy]]) over the [[Japan]]ese city of [[Hiroshima]] during [[World War II]]. The Bomber is named after its Pilot, [[Paul Tibbets]]' mother Enola Gay Tibbets.<ref name=grantfact>{{cite book|author=Grant, R. G.|title=Hiroshima (How Did It Happen?)|publisher=Franklin Watts|year=2005|isbn=9780749677220}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tibbets.html|title=Paul Tibbets Commanded Enola Gay, dropped first atomic bomb on Hiroshima|access-date=2009-06-19|archive-date=2009-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223191820/http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tibbets.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The plane was used from [[18 May]] [[1945]] to [[24 July]] [[1946]], after which it was stored at [[Suitland, Maryland]]. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:World War II]] [[Category:Hiroshima]]