Which U.S. bomber dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945?

The B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

Enola Gay was operated by the United States Army Air Forces and piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets. The aircraft released Little Boy at approximately 8:15 a.m. local time. The bombing was the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare and became one of the decisive events in the final phase of World War II.

Bockscar was the B-29 that dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9. The Great Artiste supported both atomic missions but did not release either bomb. Necessary Evil was another aircraft involved in the Hiroshima mission, serving as an observation plane. The Enola Gay was named after Tibbets’s mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.