On June 10, 1945, the 509th Bomb Group and their new B-29 bombers. In 2003, the entire restored B-29 Enola Gay went on display at NASM's new Steven F. Paul Tibbets, had been preparing for the mission at a secluded air base in Wendover, Utah. The exhibit was changed due to a controversy over original historical script displayed with the plane.
It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets., Enola Gay gained additional national attention in 1994 when the front portion of the plane was exhibited at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution in downtown Washington, D.C. See more ideas about enola gay, nose art, aircraft art. Because of its roles in the atomic bombings of Japan, its name has been synonymous with the bombings themselves. Explore James Seidl's board 'B-29s and the Enola Gay', followed by 3,302 people on Pinterest. UPI Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped 'Little Boy', the first atomic bomb ever used in war, when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) attacked Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II.
