Enola Gay

noun

1. the name of the American B-29 bomber, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr., that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.

Example Sentences

Seventy years earlier, the Enola Gay — the B-29 super fortress that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan — was built inside these walls.

From Los Angeles Times

OMD formed 46 years had a string of hits including Enola Gay, Souvenir and Joan of Arc.

From BBC

Despite the cloudiness of the crystal caused by the blast, the watch’s hands remain halted at 8:15 AM — the moment when the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb.

From Seattle Times

The two had met in 1980 and grew close in 1995, when both were involved in addressing a divisive Smithsonian exhibit of the Enola Gay, the plane that released Oppenheimer’s bomb over Hiroshima in August of 1945.

From Los Angeles Times

They had known each other for years, and their friendship had solidified in the mid-1990s, when Bird included Sherwin’s essays in a volume about the controversy surrounding a planned Smithsonian exhibit of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb.

From New York Times