On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first atomic-bomb attack and destroyed the city, killing 80,000 people instantly. Toward the ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

Discover the story of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio after suffering a number of health problems. He was 92.

The Enola Gay B-29 was built for the purpose of nuclear war. It was manufactured in 1945 with silver plates to guard against nuclear fallout. Protections against conventional munitions were removed to ...

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 ...

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) | Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 92 and insisted for six decades after the war that he had no ...

The recent release of the biopic “Oppenheimer” has brought a renewed interest in the events of July and August 1945, which finally ended World War II in the Pacific. Based on the 2005 biography, ...

Santa Rosa resident Emiko Tominaga grew up shielded from the horror and pain her mother experienced one summer morning in 1945, when a 5-ton atomic bomb dropped on her city, burning her legs, leveling ...

The director of the National Air and Space Museum yesterday rejected suggestions that the new display of the Enola Gay, the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, be altered to include ...