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The Enola Gay exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum features the B bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II.

Enola Gay was a B Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb in warfare on Hiroshima, Japan, in It was named after the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, and is now displayed at the National Air and Space Museum.

The hangar where the atomic bomb "Little Boy" was loaded on the Enola Gay bomber is one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Learn about the Manhattan Project and the role of Wendover Airfield in World War II.

Enola Gay: Today, Enola Gay -- the B bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- is parked at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia.