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 6 August 1945, just before the end of World War II.īecause of the bomber's role in the atomic bombings of Japan, its name has been synonymous with the controversy over the bombings themselves.
