The B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on Hiroshima was Enola Gay.
Piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, Enola Gay carried the uranium bomb Little Boy from North Field on Tinian on August 6, 1945. The aircraft released the bomb at approximately 8:15 a.m. over Hiroshima and then turned away from the blast.
Tibbets named the aircraft after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets. The bomber was a specially modified Silverplate B-29, adapted to carry nuclear weapons by removing some armor and gun turrets and changing its bomb bay.
Enola Gay is sometimes confused with Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9. The Great Artiste accompanied the Hiroshima mission as an instrument and observation aircraft, while Necessary Evil photographed the attack.