Enola
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The name was not a reference to homosexuality, but was given to the B-29 bomber by the pilot in honor of his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025
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 • Oct. 8, 2024
The waxwork will be part of the new film and TV-themed zone at the Baker Street attraction, which also features James Bond, E.T and Millie Bobby Brown's Enola Holmes.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
Tinian was the launching point for the Enola Gay atomic bomb attacks against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023
That afternoon, Little Boy was loaded into Tibbets’s plane, which he had named Enola Gay, for his mother.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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