Today marks the day that the first Atomic bomb was dropped during war.  The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the bomb, is at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dullas International Airport.

The Plane -

The Enola Gay is the name of the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy”, to be used in war, by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945, just before the end of World War II. Because of the bomber’s role in the atomic bombings of Japan, its name has been synonymous with the controversy over the bombings themselves. The B-29 was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets. – Read More – Enola Gay – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Hanger -

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM)’s annex at Washington Dulles International Airport in the Chantilly area of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

The Center was made possible by a US$65 million gift in October 1999 to the Smithsonian Institution by Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, an immigrant from Hungary and co-founder of the International Lease Finance Corporation.Construction of the Center required fifteen years of preparation and was built by Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Read More – Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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