What B-29 Superfortress bomber was stationed on Tinian Island?
Enola Gay The Enola Gay ( ) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. "Enola Gay" participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in a secondary target, Nagasaki, being bombed instead.
James R. Brown James Robert Brown (June 17, 1930 – October 29, 2015) was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force who served as vice commander of Tactical Air Command, with headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. The command comprises more than 118,000 military and civilian personnel, stationed at 18 major Tactical Air Command installations and other units in the United States, Panama, Okinawa and Iceland. Tactical Air Command was the operational combat organization for 74,000 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel throughout the United States.