It's been 80 years since then-Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. flew an airplane called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, dropping an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" and ushering in the age of nuclear ...

Roughly two hours before the United States bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, Iowa pilot Paul Tibbets announced to his crew of the Enola Gay that they were carrying the "world's first atomic bomb." ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The granddaughter of a World War II pilot expressed her shock that photos of the “Enola Gay” — the plane used to drop an atomic bomb on Japan — were targeted in the Trump ...

Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this documentary Tibbets co-produced with ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in The Charlotte Observer on Aug. 6, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, is the 80th anniversary.

JIM CARRIER Special to The Gazette Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 Updated Aug 5, 2025 NAGASAKI, Japan • Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay winged its way back to the Pacific Island of Tinian ...

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