Smithsonian Air and Space Museum / EnolaGayFront- On August 6,1945, this B-29 superfortress dropped the atomic bomb called 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima, Japan. Named after Enola Gay Richard Erwin                                          Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets, the plane few from Omaha, Nebraska, to Wendover, Utah, on June 14, 1945. On June 27, it left for Guam 8/10/2009                                                 where it received a modification of the bomb bay doors, and then to the island of Tinian on July 6. On July 31, a rehearsal flight made a bomb drop                                                                    of a dummy 'Little Boy' in the ocean off Tinian. On August 5, Tibbets replaced the regular pilot, Robert Lewis, who was quite unhappy about the                                                                    change. On August 30, 1946, the aircraft was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution.