Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress

Illustration

Mark Cartwright
by USAF - Imperial War Museums
published on 26 February 2025
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A photograph of the 'Enola Gay' on the Marianas Islands. This was the US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress which dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 in the final stages of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

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