Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. The bomb, code-named “Little Boy”, was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the near-complete destruction of the city. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.