On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Toward the end of his life, Enola Gay's pilot was unrepentant saying they saved "a lot of lives." So when the Enola Gay approached at 8:15 a.m., many thought it was a reconnaissance plane. But how did the explosion weigh with the 12 men aboard the Enola Gay who dropped the bomb that day? Some of the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 plane from which the first atom bomb was dropped.

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Persons: Gay, Enola, Enola Gay, Paul W, Tibbets Jr, Tibbets, Paul Tibbets Jr, Richard Cannon, Edger, we'd, God we're, we've, Terkel, Capt, Theodore van Kirk, I'm, J, Robert Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's, Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer famousy Organizations: Service, US Air Force, Boy, Us Air Force, Getty, Enola, Army Air Force Locations: Hiroshima, Wall, Silicon, Tinian, Guam, Japan, Nagasaki, Los Alamos , New Mexico