Official photograph of the Office of Chief of Engineers, now in the collections of the National Archives. Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, returns after the strike Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. 6, 1945 that killed 80,000 people and hurried the war’s end. Image: 77-BT-91: Tinian Island, August 1945. Van Kirk was the last surviving member of the Enola Gay’s 12-member crew, which was responsible for dropping the atomic bomb on Aug. Four days later, Japanese submarine, I-58, sank Indianapolis, northeast of Leyte.Ī replica of Little Boy can be found at " In Harm's Way: Pacific" exhibit area in the National Museum of the Navy, Bldg. Air Force photograph The B-29 (also called Superfortress) was a four-engine heavy bomber that was built by Boeing. Paul Tibbets - the pilot of the Enola Gay, the man who in 1945 flew the atomic bomb to Japan and. Previously, on July 26, the bomb, along with " Fat Man" was transported to Tinian Island by USS Indianapolis (CA-35) for final assembly. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. I had been wanting to talk with him for more than 20 years. Charged with dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 6th August 1945. A U-235 projectile fired down a gun barrel collided with a stationary element, causing a mass increase leading to nuclear fission. Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay. He named the B-29 that he flew on 6 August Enola Gay after his mother. Nuclear fission was achieved by the collision of two parts of active material (Uranium-235). He was entitled to fly any aircraft at any time. The gun-type weapon possessed the power of 26,000,000 pounds of high explosives.
The bomb weighed 9,000 pounds and had a diameter of only 28 inches. The bomb was dropped by a USAAF B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, piloted by U.S. The atomic bomb used at Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, was "Little Boy".