13 Facts About Enola Gay

Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.

Enola Gay participated in the second nuclear attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura.

Enola Gay was built by the Glenn L Martin Company at its bomber plant in Bellevue, Nebraska, located at Offutt Field, now Offutt Air Force Base.

Enola Gay was personally selected by Colonel Paul W Tibbets Jr.

Enola Gay, piloted by Tibbets, took off from North Field, in the Northern Mariana Islands, about six hours' flight time from Japan, accompanied by two other B-29s, The Great Artiste, carrying instrumentation, and a then-nameless aircraft later called Necessary Evil, commanded by Captain George Marquardt, to take photographs.

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Enola Gay returned safely to its base on Tinian to great fanfare, touching down at 2:58 pm, after 12 hours 13 minutes.

Enola Gay, flown by Captain George Marquardt's Crew B-10, was the weather reconnaissance aircraft for Kokura, the primary target.

Enola Gay reported clear skies over Kokura, but by the time Bockscar arrived, the city was obscured by smoke from fires from the conventional bombing of Yahata by 224 B-29s the day before.

Nagasaki mission, Enola Gay was flown by Crew B-10, normally assigned to Up An' Atom:.

On 29 April 1946, Enola Gay left Roswell as part of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific.

From 1946 to 1961, the Enola Gay was put into temporary storage at a number of locations.

Enola Gay became the center of a controversy at the Smithsonian Institution when the museum planned to put its fuselage on public display in 1995 as part of an exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day.