It then dropped the Little Boy bomb which fell until it was just over 1900 feet above the city. The bomber moved across the skyline of Hiroshima and centered on its target in the center of the city. The Enola Gay had taken off from the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean and flew for approximately 6 hours before it was over the city of Hiroshima at approximately 8:15am on the morning of August 6th, 1945. The bomber was named after the mother of the pilot who flew the B-29 in the mission, Colonel Paul Tibbets. The atomic bomb was carried to its target by an American B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay after United States President, Harry S. Hiroshima is a city on the largest island of Japan and had a population of over 400,000 at the time of the atomic bombing. The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan was codenamed Little Boy and was detonated over the city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.
