GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr.

Detailed explanation-2: -The crew of the Enola Gay guessed-but had not been told-what the weapon in its bomb bay was. was the world’s first atomic bomb, and Special Mission No. 13 would drop it on Japan.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forces flew the Enola Gay during an atomic test program in the Pacific; it was then delivered to be stored in an airfield in Arizona before being flown to Illinois and transferred to the Smithsonian in July 1949.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the city disappeared under a mushroom cloud, Captain Robert Lewis – co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the weapon – wrote in his log “My God, what have we done?” Three days later the U.S.