Seventy-three years ago the atomic bomb, carried by the Enola Gay, was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ending World War II. One of the men on board that plane was a North Carolina native.

Eighty years ago, the world entered the nuclear age when Enola Gay, a modified U.S. Army Air Corps B-29 Superfortress, dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on ...

One of the most recognizable aircraft in the museum’s collection is the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay. The Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” the first atomic bomb used in combat on August 6, ...