... atomic bombs were to be dropped: "Hiroshima, a military centre, with 320,000 people, and Nagasaki which had a population of 260,000" (Killingray 9). On August 6, 1945, a B-29 Super fortress named Enola Gay left the Pacific Island of Tinian to bomb the Japanese city of Hiroshima (Killingray). The pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, named the Enola ... Gay after his mother. The crew of Enola Gay was told that no one could be sure what would happen when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. The atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima was named "Little Boy." ... The Enola Gay carried the "Li...

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On the morning of August 6th, 1945, a B-29 "Flying Fortress" named the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb called "Little Boy" on the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima. Three days later a second bomb called "Fat Man" was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. ... otherwise relatively untouched during the war. The bomb that dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, weighed 4.5 tons. At 8:15 in the morning the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay and missed ground zero at 1,980 feet by only 600 feet. In a flash of an instant, 66,00 people were killed and 69,000 people were injured by as ten...

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