At 8:15 am, the bomb was released over Hiroshima.
See all videos for this articleĪt approximately 2:45 am on August 6, 1945, Tibbets-who was now a full colonel-and a crew of 11 took off from Tinian island carrying a uranium bomb that was known as “Little Boy.” The Enola Gay-Tibbets had a maintenance man paint that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff-was accompanied by various other planes. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation. The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay took off from the Mariana Islands on August 6, 1945, bound for Hiroshima, Japan, where, with the dropping of the atomic bomb, it heralded a new and terrible concept of warfare. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.
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