The Enola Gay was followed only two days later by another B-29, called ' Bocks Car', which dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Colonel Paul Tibbets, the plane's pilot, named her after his mother. She was one of only 15 B-29s modified to deliver atomic bombs. Army Air Force's 509th Composite Group and flew her mission out of Tinian, a small island in the Marianas chain.
The Enola Gay was the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
