Col. Paul Tibbets commanded the bomber nicknamed this over Japan in August 1945
The atomic bomb
, code-named "Little Boy", was dropped over... [DOC] [TLE] The Men Who Dropped the Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki [PAR] Aug 5, 2013 ... At 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6, 1945, a propeller-driven, ... Air Force had 
scorched Japan for roughly a year, this bomb was not filled with the usual 
incendiaries.