B-29 Superfortress: What Kind of Plane Carried the Atomic Bombs to Japan?
The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber. It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot. On August 6, 1945, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare during World War II, targeting the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The B-29’s innovative engineering included … Read more