But even now, no one on board the Enola Gay knows its final destination. A weather plane reaches Hiroshima. The sky over the city is clear. On the ground, a yellow alert rings out for 22 minutes.

Early in the morning of August 6, 1946, a US Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from the its base in Tinian, near Guam, and headed for the city of Hiroshima in southern Japan.

The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed swiftly. Enola Gay faced no resistance as it dropped the bomb.

On 6 August 1945 at 08:15 Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been used in a war.

The museum is known for exhibiting the restored B-29 bomber named Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Referring to his “Hiroshima Collection,” Tsuchida said: “I ...

Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Yukio Nakata. At seventeen seconds after 8:15 a.m. on August 6 1945, the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “ultimate weapon”, the atomic bomb ...

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and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.